NEWS 36: This chariot still rolls on... This chariot still rolls on, in vain did they want to put sticks in the wheels!

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 24: －Did he need to smoke pipes[,] him there[,] to get a coloured face!

NEWS 374: ROUHER'S SADNESS: －I've stuffed it as best as I can [but] in vain, [it's] impossible to make [people] believe that it's still alive

NEWS 71: －Who the devil would ever suspect that it would still snow in Paris!..

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

GENERAL SCHLICK'S[sic] ENTRY INTO THE CAMPAIGN －This is giving me trouble... but finally I'm on the horse!!!..

NEWS 29: A quarter of an hour after his death he was still alive

NEWS 66: A REPLASTERING:－ My little chap, you demolish [it] in vain!...I’m going to replaster that very thing!..

AT MANTUA / －What...... here they come to attack us even in this place!!... but what use are strongholds, if you're not secure?.....

Conjugal Manners 4: This morning, before dawn..

NEWS 25: Mr. CRÉMIEUX LOOKING FOR AN APPARTMENT: －If I rent this lodging, I would like the proprieter to take down this dreadful portrait... oh! but, Good God, it's a mirror!..

Childish Acts 1: I don't want to get into so much water... there'll be a lot of big fish in there

The Artists 4: Inconvenient to send a bad picture to the Salon: －They wrote above my forest! －Spinach twelve to the metre! －And me, on my magnificent study worthy of Géricault, they had the barbarity to stick this notice! this is a horse, don’t mistake it for a donkey since it will be confused with the artist!

THRILLS OF THE HUNT 13: －It's no use their having told me their guns are charged only with small shot, it's no less deeply upsetting to have my head aimed at like this for the next three hours!... I tremble in case they dream they meet a rabbit!..

NEWS 179: They wanted to snuff out even the Sun

TRIVIAL THINGS 5: Oh,what the devvvvvil!... lady we'd such a good time they was eighteen on us, they was no men nor women, we was all from the Auvergne what the devvvvvvvvil!!!!!..

TRIVIAL THINGS 5: Oh,what the devvvvvil!... lady we'd such a good time they was eighteen on us, they was no men nor women, we was all from the Auvergne what the devvvvvvvvil!!!!!..

NEWS 66: To think that there are people who, in weather like this, are cruel enough to put that dog out of doors!

NEWS 251: THE TSAR AT SEBASTOPOL. －It's annoying...... they know I don't like the tricolour flag, and they've put it everywhere!..

Childish Acts 4: In winter it's silly to have children dressed up as nicely as this!..

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

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 33: “The theatre is a good thing for the lower classes of Paris, they come there to relax in the evening from the hard toils of the day.” (All the moralists)

NEWS 103: LE CONSTITUTIONEL [sic] AND THE WANDERING JEW: Let’s be on our way, old chap, on our way... if even I can’t make you walk it’s certainly because your illness is too constitutional!..

NEWS 105: THE REJUVENATION OF THE CONSTITUTIONEL [sic] FOLLOWING THE REJUVENATION OF AESON: I read in Mr. de Chompre's book that the aged Aeson was in earlier times perfectly rejuvenated by making him simmer in a stew-pot with a multitude of small spices, such as marshmallow roots, lizard, sticks of liquorice and toads... but the precise recipe of this stew has been lost... I have imagined new ingredients, but unfortunately they are devilishly expensive! I think I would have done better to preserve my old fellow by －having him stuffed by Mr. Gannat!

IN CHINA 13: －Here, look at that case..., it contains the American envoys who are going to Peking!... －You'd think that that carriage contained curious animals... －To be sure! if they are curious..., too bad for them, because they won't see much of the country they're travelling through!..