It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius. Only God is triangular!

No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.

A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought.

Men who pay their tailors never amount to anything, they never even become Cabinet ministers.

We are scarcely apt to berate the source of enjoyment.

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.