The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.

Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?

When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.

I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.

Signs cannot be represented, in a spy's report, so damningly as words.

Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.

Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.