Every time a new nation, America or Russia for instance, advances toward civilization, the human race perfects itself; every time an inferior class emerges from enslavement and degradation, the human race again perfects itself.

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

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

Love, supreme power of the heart, mysterious enthusiasm that encloses in itself all poetry, all heroism, all religion!

The universe is in France; outside it, there is nothing.

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

Nothing recalls the past like music.