I would love to be able to write a tragedy in my imagination--it would turn into a masterpiece.

Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.

I've never been on good terms with God, but now I'm becoming His intimate, for He is truly absolute and extremely legitimate.

Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.

Trousers and the reputation of not being a thief are similar in the following way: There is no particular honor in having them butonce they are lost, everyone thinks they have the right to insult us.

Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!

Nothing genuinely historical was ever lost in this country. For this reason we have two ruling parties: villains and fools.