It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.
Everyone places his good where he can and has as much of it as he can, in his own way.
A woman can keep one secret the secret of her age.
To hold a pen is to be at war.
This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.