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.

All music, even if its occasion be a gay one, renders us pensive.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time.

The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.

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.

Exile: A tomb in which you can get mail.