God's only excuse is that he does not exist.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.

The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.