The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.

It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one's generation.

The difference breeds hatred.

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

It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.

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

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.