The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.

The road is long fro the project to its completion.

I have the knack of easing scruples.

To live without loving is not really to live.

Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.

I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.