Where violence reigns, reason is weak.

The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.

Marriage, as practised by high society, is arranged indecency.

Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.

Hope is but a charlatan that ceases not to deceive us. For myself happiness only began when I had lost it.

The poor are the blacks of Europe.

She commands who is blest with indifference.