Every true passion thinks only of itself.
I no longer find such pleasure in that preeminently good society, of which I was once so fond. It seems to me that beneath a cloak of clever talk it proscribes all energy, all originality. If you are not a copy, people accuse you of being ill-mannered.
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
A good book is an event in my life.
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.