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.

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

Ah! devout though I may be, I am no less a man!

I recover my property wherever I find it.

Malicious men may die, but malice never.

Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.

We are all mortals, and each is for himself.