Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.

It is said of a lonely man that he does not appreciate the life of society. This is like saying he hates hiking because he dislikes walking in thick forest on a dark night.

Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.

Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.

A man without nobility cannot have kindliness; he can only have good nature.

We take our colors, chameleon-like, from each other.

Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.