The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
Spring appears and we are once more children.
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.