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Goupil, who is helpful to everybody, and justly regarded as the wittiest man in Nemours, is esteemed by the little town; but he is punished in his children, who are hideous, rickety, and hydrocephalous.

“Lovers, like drunkards, have a Providence of their own,”

When we remember the immense service done to lovers by windows, it seems quite natural that they should be taxed.

“The finer the music, the less the ignorant enjoy it.”

A deist is an atheist with an eye to the off-chance of some advantage.

Madame Crémière was a very fat woman, doubtfully fair, with a thickly freckled complexion; she wore her gowns too tight, was great friends with Madame Dionis, and passed as well informed because she read novels.

His face looked as if it belonged to a hunchback, whose hump was an internal deformity.