there are no nationalities in heaven.
The affairs of the royal house form a subject of conversation for those who, as a rule, would have no conversation.
... love always betrays its intentions.
history ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries.
Words express only the feelings we know already.
those two wholesome defects of the French people, malice and curiosity, both of which are essential to its greatness.