Loving is half of believing.

For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose.

As we have explained, in first love the soul is taken long before the body; later the body is taken long before the soul; sometimes the soul is not taken at all.

When liberty returns, I will return.

A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.

Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.

At a certain depth of distress, the poor, in their stupor, groan no longer over evil, and are no longer thankful for good.