To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.

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

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.

God's only excuse is that he does not exist.