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.

But it is not reason that governs love.

I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.

We always speak well when we manage to be understood.

The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.

There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.

There's nothing people can't contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.