Alas, everything that men say to one another is alike; the ideas they exchange are almost always the same, in their conversation. But inside all those isolated machines, what hidden recesses, what secret compartments! It is an entire world that each one carries within him, an unknown world that is born and dies in silence! What solitudes all these human bodies are!

Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.

Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest

There are temptations more attractive than angels. Liberty, Patriotism, the good of humanity – words like that are the silver scales of the Tempter’s flaming wings

Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English.

The mouth keeps silent to hear the heart speak.

The return makes one love the farewell.