"Many people think that virtue consists of..." - Quote by Alphonse Karr

“Display is like shallow water, where you can see the muddy bottom.”

“We can invent only with memory.”

“Women's glances express what they dare not speak.”

“The virtue in most request is conformity.”

“We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.”

“He does not praise himself - yet he is respectable.”

“There is nothing more distressing ... than the hard, scoffing spirit which treats the allegation of dishonesty in a public man as a cause for laughter. Such laughter is worse than the crackling of thorns under a pot, for it denotes not merely the vacant mind, but the heart in which high emotions have been choked before they could grow to fruition.”

“You can’t reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.”

“When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.”