A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
Let passion reach a catastrophe and it submits us to an intoxicating force far more powerful than the niggardly irritation of wine or of opium. The lucidity our ideas then achieve, and the delicacy of our overly exalted sensations, produce the strangest and most unexpected effects.
Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.
Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.
To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.