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

But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength.

Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.

Nothing is more dangerous than to stop working. It is a habit that can soon be lost, one that is easily neglected and hard to resume. A measure of day-dreaming is a good thing, like a drug prudently used ... But too much submerges and drowns. Woe to the intellectual worker who allows himself to lapse wholly from positive thinking into day-dreaming. He thinks he can easily change back, and tells himself that it is all one. He is wrong! To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse poison with a source of nourishment.

The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness.

There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it.

He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself.