The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness
The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.
I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests.
The best way to be boring is to include everything.
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color.