“The peculiarity of prudery is to station the more sentries the less the fortress is menaced.”

“The delight we inspire in others has this enchanting peculiarity that, far from being diminished like every other reflection, it returns to us more radiant than ever.”

“Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.”

“What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.”

“As we see, he had a strange and peculiar way of judging things. I suspect that he acquired it from the Gospel.”

“The peculiarity of sunrise is to make us laugh at all our terrors of the night, and our laugh is always proportioned to the fear we have had.”

“Argot is nothing more nor less than a wardrobe in which language, having some bad deed to do, disguises itself. It puts on word-masks and metaphoric rags.”