Signs cannot be represented, in a spy's report, so damningly as words.
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.