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.

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

People happy in love have an air of intensity.

Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.

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.

Conversationis like the table of contents of a dull book.... All the greatest subjects of human thought are proudly displayedin it. Listen to it for three minutes, and you ask yourself which is more striking, the emphasis of the speaker or his shocking ignorance.

I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.