The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
To live without loving is not really to live.
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.