Reason bears disgrace, courage combats it, patience surmounts it.

It is day by day that we go forward; today we are as we were yesterday and tomorrow we shall be like ourselves today. So we go on without being aware of it, and this is one of the miracles of Providence that I so love.

. . . it seldom happens, I think, that a man has the civility to die when all the world wishes it.

. . .the most astonishing, the most surprising, the most marvelous, the most miraculous. . . the greatest, the least, the rarest, the most common, the most public, the most private till today. . . I cannot bring myself to tell you: guess what it is.

matrimony is a very dangerous disorder; I had rather drink.

I love you so passionately, that I hide a great part of my love, so as not to oppress you with it.

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.