It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
God's only excuse is that he does not exist.
Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
Our true passions are selfish.
An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.