I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.

Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.

I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction," said Mathilde. "It is the only thing which cannot be bought.

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.

The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.