Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

It is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides!

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.

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

You who are in power have only the means that money produces — we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.

Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.