Water! pretending to be pure, thou resemblest false friends. Thou art warm at the top and cold at bottom.

To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.

He had the confidence of a man who had never been wounded.

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

The wretchedness of a child interests a mother, the wretchedness of a young man interests a young girl, the wretchedness of an old man interests no one. It is, of all distresses, the coldest.

A soul for a piece of bread. Misery makes the offer; society accepts.

But what is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.