I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.

But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.

Waterloo is a battle of the first rank won by a captain of the second

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.