I must add... my gratitude to you for the attention with which you have listened to me, for, from my numerous observations, our Liberals are never capable of letting anyone else have a conviction of his own without at once meeting their opponent with abuse or even something worse.

originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.

It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.

You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you.

There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.

To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it’s good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things.

The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas is that he is in love.