You see, Mademoiselle, I have experience, I know the world. To pass the time, why don't you ask every passenger to tell you his life's story? And if there is a single one among them who has never cursed his life, who has not often told himself that he was the unhappiest of men, then you may throw me overboard, headfirst!

What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.

A torch lighted in the forests of America set all Europe in conflagration.

Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one.

Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.