Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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.