The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.

I see but one rule: to be clear.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregiousof sins.... It is one step away from protestantism.

Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.

I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.

A strange effect of marriage, such as the nineteenth century has made it! The boredom of married life inevitably destroys love, when love has preceded marriage. And yet, as a philosopher has observed, it speedily brings about, among people who are rich enough not to have to work, an intense boredom with all quiet forms of enjoyment. And it is only dried up hearts, among women, that it does not predispose to love.