Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.

No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.

Every historian discloses a new horizon.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only way to keep adding to one's talent, and one's inner happiness.

No one makes a revolution by himself.