Thought can never be compared with action, but when it awakens in us the image of truth.
Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
[On Napoleon:] One has the impression of an imperious wind blowing about one's ears when one is near that man.
Between God and love, I recognize no mediator but my conscience.
One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
New doctrines ever displease the old. They like to fancy that the world has been losing wisdom, instead of gaining it, since they were young.