No one asks public men to be strictly moral, but they must seem to be well-behaved.

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

My mind is not suited to go much into company.

Perhaps this is in the end what most marriages are - gentleness, memory, and habit.

One of the uncovenanted benefits of living for a long time is that, having so many more dead than living friends, death can appear as a step backwards into the joyous past.

What I do not know and cannot even hope to understand before I die is why human beings are willfully, coldly, matter-of-factly cruel to each other ... What nerve has atrophied in the torturer, or worse is sensually moved?

In France, even heresy rapidly hardens into dogma.