Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.

Revery, which is thought in its nebulous state, borders closely upon the land of sleep, by which it is bounded as by a natural frontier.

As we have explained, in first love the soul is taken long before the body; later the body is taken long before the soul; sometimes the soul is not taken at all.

The owl goes not into the nest of the lark.

The tomb is not a blind alley: it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight. It opens on the dawn.

The cruel of heart have their own black happiness.

For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose.