To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering.
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry . It is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
Those who do not complain are never pitied.
I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.
Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.