I desire no other proof of Christianity than the Lord's Prayer.

The most beautiful landscapes in the world, if they evoke no memory, if they bear no trace of a remarkable event, are uninteresting compared to historic landscapes.

I never was able to believe in the existence of next year except as in a metaphysical notion.

Conversation as talent exists only in France. In other countries, conversation provides politeness, discussion, and friendship; in France, it is an art for which imagination and soul are certainly very welcome, but which can also provide its own secret remedies to compensate you for the absence of either or both, if you so desire.

How much past there is in a life, however brief it be.

[The Germans] so easily confuse obstinacy with energy, and rudeness with firmness.

women have no existence except in love; the history of their life begins and ends with love!