We gild our medicines with sweets; why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well?

Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing but that we cannot prevent from barking.

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society

In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.

We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.