Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
I have a bad memory for facts.
Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness and love give. I am man before being a prince, and when I have the good fortune to be in love, my mistress addresses a man and not a prince.