Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.

Ceux, de qui la conduite offre le plus à rire, sont toujours sur autrui les premiers à médire.