The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing.
White men should exhibit the same insensibility to moral tortures that red men do to physical torments.
Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen.
Once [a cat] has given its love, what absolute confidence, what fidelity of affection!
To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.
Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.