Society is composed of two great classes—those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
Change in fashion is the tax which the industry of the poor levies on the vanity of the rich.
It is an incontestable fact that there are in France seven million folk who beg for alms, and another twelve millions who are too poor to give them.
The nobility, say the nobles, is an intermediary between the king and the people.... Precisely; just as the hound is the intermediary between the huntsman and the hares.
France is a country where it is often useful to exhibit one’s vices, and invariably dangerous to exhibit one’s virtues.