There is no magician like love.

Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular.

Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects of antiquity it contains, or for the primitive manners of its inhabitants and its picturesque appearance.

People seem to lose all respect for the past; events succeed each other with such velocity that the most remarkable one of a few years gone by, is no more remembered than if centuries had closed over it.

Bores: People who talk of themselves, when you are thinking only of yourself.

The infirmities of genius are often mistaken for its privileges.

Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant; democracy, to many.