The people are as severe toward the clergy as toward women; they want to see absolute devotion to duty from both.

It is not enough to forgive; one must forget.

The greater part of what women write about women is mere sycophancy to man.

I must keep on rowing, not until I reach port but until I reach my grave.

[On Napoleon:] One has the impression of an imperious wind blowing about one's ears when one is near that man.

The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end - the civilization of mankind.

One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.