You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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.