There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.

Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.

Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.

People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.

If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.

You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.

The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.