If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.

War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon's proclamations.

People happy in love have an air of intensity.

But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.

Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.

Signs cannot be represented, in a spy's report, so damningly as words.

Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.