To write a book is to risk being shot at in public.
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
Without patience, without absence of anger, no one can be called a politician.
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.
If you want to be witty work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
One can acquire everything in solitude but character.