The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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.
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.