You don't have to write to me if you don't feel like it. There's no real friendship without absolute freedom.

Ah! that Senate is a world of ice and darkness! It votes the destruction of peoples as the simplest and wisest thing; for its members themselves are moribund.

a woman's heart has no wrinkles.

Love without reverence and enthusiasm is only friendship.

I saw in 'the wandering Jew' the personification of the Jewish people, exiled in the Middle Ages. Nevertheless, they are once again extremely rich, owing to their unfailing rude greediness and their indefatigable activity. With their hard-heartedness that they extend toward people of other faiths and races they are at the point of making themselves kings of the world. This people can thank its obstinacy that France will be Judized within fifty years. Already some wise Jews prophesy this frankly.

I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.

Years do not always make age.