"Friendship is but a name; I love nobody. I do not even love my brothers. Perhaps Joseph, a little, from habit and because he is my elder."

"The greater the man, the less he is subject to fortune; he depends on himself and his own resources."

"They say that you are as fat as a good Normandy farmeress."

"What's the idea? We blow the brains out of anybody who sticks his head into our sleigh, huh?"

"The people are not to be trusted."