there is not enough interest in life to spread over twenty-four hours when one can't sleep.

Liberty is the only idea which circulates with the human blood, in all ages, in all countries, and in all literature - liberty that is, and what cannot be separated from liberty, a love of country.

The egotism of woman is always for two.

Thought can never be compared with action, but when it awakens in us the image of truth.

A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life.

It is not enough to forgive; one must forget.