Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.

Every true passion thinks only of itself.

I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.

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

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.

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.

Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.