A first impulse was never a crime.
The greater the risk, the sweeter the fruit.
It is the guilt, not the scaffold, which constitutes the shame.
He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.
One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie
When a woman has the gift of silence she possesses a quality above the vulgar. It is a gift of Heaven seldom bestowed; without a little miracle it cannot be accomplished; and Nature suffers violence when Heaven puts a woman in the humor of observing silence.