People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.

What is really beautiful must always be true.

The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.

I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.

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.

To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You're supposed to seem bored.

The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.