history ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries.

Children never grow tired; their likes and dislikes are constant; let them laugh at something once and they laugh always; do what you will, they are sure to say, 'Do it again!

there are no nationalities in heaven.

those two wholesome defects of the French people, malice and curiosity, both of which are essential to its greatness.

history ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries.

The arts are good and providential in that they allow the soul to imitate the movements of love, and to feel love without its being returned - which, perhaps, is the only way of feeling it permanently.

The affairs of the royal house form a subject of conversation for those who, as a rule, would have no conversation.