And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead (suicide note)

Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death.

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.

The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests-a gold mine.

The contact of two epidermises.

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.

The majority of the books of our time give one the impression of having been manufactured in a day out of books read the day before.