Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.

Why shouldn't man be as angry about not having always been alive as about having to stop being alive?

Men do not change; they unmask themselves.

When women oppose themselves to the projects and ambition of men, they excite their lively resentment; if in their youth they meddle with political intrigues, their modesty must suffer.

There is no second country for an Englishman, except a ship and the sea.

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

It is difficult to grow old gracefully.