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

To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.

An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.

This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregiousof sins.... It is one step away from protestantism.

To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.

The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.

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