A little girl without a doll is almost as unfortunate and quite as impossible as a woman without children.

Cities produce ferocious men, because they produce corrupt men; the mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

It is nothing to die; it is frightful not to live.

A creditor is worse than a master; for a master owns only your person, a creditor owns your dignity and can belabour that.

God made only water, but man made wine.

There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.

A man trying to escape never thinks himself sufficiently concealed.

Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.

Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great.