A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.

The first virtue of a young man today - that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers - is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.

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.

Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.

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