» Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.
» If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.
» I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
» All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
» Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
» We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
» Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
» The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
» Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
» Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.