“A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.”

“Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.”

“A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.”

“In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.”

“The more one judges, the less one loves.”

“He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in the glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it is that quivering lip, that cold, hating eye, which built magazines and powder-houses.”

“Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him.”

“Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches; and tho' avarice will preserve a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.”