I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.

Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.

Without reflecting that this is the only moment in which you can study character," said the count; "on the steps of the scaffold death tears off the mask that has been worn through life, and the real visage is disclosed.

God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.

For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

We’ll go where the air is pure, where all sounds are soothing, where, no matter how proud one may be, one feels humble and finds oneself small- in short, we’ll go to the sea. I love the sea as one loves a mistress and I long for her when I haven’t seen her for some time