... France is the genius among nations.
Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth.
stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.
... books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive.
I have come to the conclusion that the modern interpretation of the Declaration of Independence is something like this: I am as good as those that think themselves better and a long sight better than those who only think themselves as good.
her age was that indeterminate mixture of everlasting youth and anticipated wisdom which is the glory and the curse of genius.