Proverty and wealth are comparative sins.
To breathe Paris is to preserve one's soul.
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it also.
A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.
The rich's paradise was created by the poor's hell.