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.
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
To create a public scandal is what's wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.