It is very difficult for me to know my friends; this also preys heavily on my spirits.

The gold of the royalists is as plentiful as when the wretched woman, who is now about to die, was revelling in her voluptuous pride at Versailles.

I know that the hands of many, who call themselves patriots, are even now grasping at the wages for which they are to betray the people.

A day of reckoning shall come for all of them, though the list of their names is a long one.

Were I to write the names of those whom I know to be true, I should be unable to insert in it above five or six.