The most striking effects of art are but rough counterfeits of nature.
To the despair of man, he can do nothing, either for good or for evil, but that which is imperfect. His every work, be it intellectual or physical, is stamped with the mark of destruction.
Avarice begins where poverty ends.
Dignity is but the screen of pride; from behind it we rage at our ease.
There are certain rich organizations, on whom the extremes of happiness and misery produce a soporific effect.
The most natural sentiments are those which are acknowledged with the greatest repugnance.
The first requisite of revenge is dissimulation. An avowed hatred is powerless.
It is in the nature of women to prove the impossible by the possible, and to destroy facts with presentiments.
Power does not consist in striking hard and often, but in striking with justice.
To stroll about the streets is in itself a science; it is the gastronomy of the eye.