War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon's proclamations.

At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.

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.

Far less envy in America than in France.

Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.