I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.

There is no such thing as "natural law": this expression is nothing but old nonsense... Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.

It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.

I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.

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

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

What is really beautiful must always be true.