At least it's better to be married than to be dead.
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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.
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.