I have a bad memory for facts.

If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.

Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.

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.

Jean Jacques Rousseauis nothing but a fool in my eyes when he takes it upon himself to criticise society; he did not understand it, and approached it with the heart of an upstart flunkey.... For all his preaching a Republic and the overthrow of monarchical titles, the upstart is mad with joy if a Duke alters the course of his after-dinner stroll to accompany one of his friends.

Sometimes the impact of Mozart's music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.

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