Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.

At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.

It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.

Sometimes the impact of Mozart's music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.

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

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.