JOURNEY TO CHINA 10: CHINESE PROBITY. The unfortunate man who commits a little failing and gives 80 per cent to his creditors is ruined, dishonoured, lost, and sees all his careers close before him... if he would like to be well thought of, well received in the world, there is only one way... that is to begin again upon a bigger scale and to give away nothing at all

NEWS 89: Well now!... they no longer seem to be troubling with me at all!

NEWS 85: －This trunk is no one's, therefore it ought to belong to us

JOURNEY TO CHINA 3: THE CUSTOMS. Having arrived at customs, the traveller is examined, ransacked, undressed and rifled －His clothes are not admitted to [this country], since they make them in China; －His wig [is], because they do not make them; －His boots, because leather is prohibited; －His clyster-pump, because it is a mechanical object with a suspect use... they seize everything and make him pay duty for the rest, after which, he is as free as the air..

[NEWS 140]: A USEFUL APPLICATION FOR THE HYPNOTISING DIAMOND － My wife is well hyponotised!... I can quietly clear off to the opera ball... sleep soundly duckie!..

TRIVIAL THINGS 1: Eleven degrees centigrade! what a bad turn it gives you! and they call this a year of mercy!

NEWS 175: Tell me, Mister Colimard, is it true that now the government's going to force all journalists to wear a uniform and that they'll make [them] pay security to all subscribers?..

GROTESQUE SCENES 5: The barbar thinks of his creditors while sharpening his razor. The stupefying practice before this face [makes its owner] begin to feel a stomach ache!..

PARISIANS TYPES 6: Well there you are, what've you got there? －Don't talk to me about it; we've got people to stay and I've just done my shopping

TRAGIC PHYSIOGNOMIES 5: ATHALIE “To the birds' young he gives food” “And his bounty to nature overall!”

PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE ASSEMBLY 18: Below the upper vignette: －You see, how well little Estancelin speaks for his age, and in front of everybody, and without crying... unlike you Anatole, he's a great satisfaction to his parents! ; Below the lower vignette: The meeting is suspended

NEWS 225: －To think that with the stone from all these pedestals you could have built a good dozen primary schools

TENANTS AND LANDLORDS 22: Is the account exact?... now you're going to ask me if I can give you a receipt... under the pretext that if one's rich one should always give something!..

NEWS 1: I didn’t tell you to go and make yourself into... sugar! I told you to go and cook yourself!

TRIVIAL THINGS 6: －Is it to you or to the Gentleman who's your brother that I have the honour of speaking? －It is to my brother, Sir

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 63: THE NEIGHBOURS BEFORE THE JUSTICE OF THE PEACE: Well, I won the case all the same, and you won't be so stuck-up now, Mrs. Pimbèche... because the Justice of the Peace has sentenced you to go back to your house which backs on to mine!..

PASTORALS 22: －I tell you you've moved the boundary stone and you've moved it forward on to my field!... And I'm telling you I haven't... and I'll maintain in front of all the courts that it's due to my father, and even my grandfather, that my boundary's where it is!... Ah! but!..

PASTORALS 22: －I tell you you've moved the boundary stone and you've moved it forward on to my field!... And I'm telling you I haven't... and I'll maintain in front of all the courts that it's due to my father, and even my grandfather, that my boundary's where it is!... Ah! but!..

PASTORALS 22: －I tell you you've moved the boundary stone and you've moved it forward on to my field!... And I'm telling you I haven't... and I'll maintain in front of all the courts that it's due to my father, and even my grandfather, that my boundary's where it is!... Ah! but!..

All is lost! except the cash..

JOURNEY TO CHINA 17: THE PENAL CODE. The Chinese legislators have decreed that all the accused will answer a summons freely in front of their judges, and so they are brought before the examining magistrate between two policemen and bound with handcuffs, which in fact leaves them no more liberty than to sneeze. Moreover justice is delivered with such promptness in the Celestial Empire that it is very rare for he who has been cautioned to remain more than eight months before attending his trial, finally the solemn day arrives when he sees himself sentenced to a fortnight in prison, and the capped mandarin has the goodness to explain to him that this fortnight is not to be confused with the eight months he has already spent behind bolted doors

TRIVIAL THINGS 7: －Come to dinner, my wife dines in town: we will be fellows together. －Ah,deuce,I have a migraine! (aside) and his wife who is waiting for me at home!

PASTORALS 13: －What!... all my sheep are dead of the pip and my chickens of sheep-pox!... and this is what's sold to me as a country house with a yield and charm!..

PASTORALS 13: －What!... all my sheep are dead of the pip and my chickens of sheep-pox!... and this is what's sold to me as a country house with a yield and charm!..

Strangers in Paris 16: The Daguerreotype portrait: －Here is the work of the sun..., how coloured it is, hm?... how warm... and all in three seconds! －Well, true...looking at that, you wouldn’t say that I’d been in the sun for only three seconds... you’d think I’d been in it for three years, because I look like a real negro... never mind, it’s a pretty portrait, and my wife will be well pleased!..