Faire son devoir tous les jours et se fier à Dieu, pour le lendemain. - Charles Baudelaire

God is the only being who, in order to reign, need not even exist.

To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.

Ah! miserable dog, if I had offered you a package of excrement, you would have smelled it with delight and perhaps devoured it. In this, poor companion of my sad life, you are like the public, to whom one must never present delicate perfumes, which exasperate them, but only carefully chosen filth.