Contemptuous people are sure to be contemptible.

All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.

Men's hearts and faces are always wide asunder; women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror-like in the instant power of reflection.

The contact of two epidermises.

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

There aren't many benefactors who don't say, like Satan: All these things will I give you if you bow down and worship me.

If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.