Dandies, who – as you know - scorn all emotions as being beneath them, and do not believe, like that simpleton Goethe, that astonishment can ever be a proper feeling for the human mind.

“In Paris, where raillery is so quick to throw emotion out the window, silence, …”

“He had a reputation in society as a man with a lively wit, whose gaiety was ple…”

“We priests are the surgeons of souls, and it is our duty to deliver them of sha…”

“For in Paris, whenever God puts a pretty woman there (the streets), the Devil, …”