How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.