Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.

He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.

A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.

I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.

I recover my property wherever I find it.

They [zealots] would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.

How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!