Far less envy in America than in France.
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.