Many a one commits a reprehensible action, who is at bottom an honourable man, because man seldom acts upon natural impulse, but from some secret passion of the moment which lies hidden and concealed within the narrowest folds of his heart.

Of all the peoples of Europe, Spaniards disgust me the least.

We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them.

War,--the trade of barbarians!

Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

There is a joy in danger.

Policemen and prisons ought never to be the means used to bring men back to the practice of religion.