Fiction is the microscope of truth.

Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion.

Friendship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace.

France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.

History teaches everything, even the future.

Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.

It is the qualities of the heart, not those of the face, that should attract us in women, because the former are durable, the latter transitory. So lovable women, like roses, retain their sweetness long after they have lost their beauty.