Each epoch dreams the one to follow.

Fear accomplishes much in love. The husband of the Middle Ages was loved by his wife for his very severity. The bride of William the Conqueror, having been beaten by him, recognized him by this token for her lord and husband.

Woman’s happiness consists in obeying; she objects to a man who yields too much.

What manly eloquence could produce such an effect as woman’s silence?

Man hunts and fights. Woman contrives and dreams; she is the mother of fancy, of the gods.

The historian’s first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth.

Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions.

Coffee, the sober drink, the mighty nourishment of the brain, which unlike other spirits, heightens purity and lucidity; coffee, which clears the clouds of the imagination and their gloomy weight; which illuminates the reality of things suddenly with the flush of truth.

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education.

The way to gain a friend is to be one