Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

I confess that my stomach does not take to this style of cooking. I cannot accept calves sweetbreads swimming in a salty sauce, nor can I eat mince consisting of turkey, hare, and rabbit, which they try to persuade me comes from a single animal... As for the cooks, I really cannot be expected to put up with this ham essence, nor the excessive quantity of morels and other mushrooms, pepper, and nutmeg with which they disguise perfectly good food.

All the arts are brothers; each one is a light to the others.

You see, Mademoiselle, I have experience, I know the world. To pass the time, why don't you ask every passenger to tell you his life's story? And if there is a single one among them who has never cursed his life, who has not often told himself that he was the unhappiest of men, then you may throw me overboard, headfirst!

Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.

Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.

Let us confess it: evil strides the world.