A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.