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

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.

Women of the world crave excitement.

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

Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.

There is a melancholy that stems from greatness

Egotism is the tongue of vanity.