"All the reasonings of men are not..." - Quote by Voltaire

“Nothing could be smarter, more splendid, more brilliant, better drawn up than two armies. Trumpets, fifes, hautboys, drums, cannons, formed a harmony such as never been heard in hell.”

“Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.”

“There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.”

“I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men.”

“If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it will then be but poor consolation to believe the world equally in the dark. There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost any attachment, that it is not safe to leave any to itself. We can all begin ‘freely’- as light preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have a heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.”

“With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.”

“What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has.”

“The familiarity of superiors embitters one, because it may not be returned.”

“But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!”