"Le désir de s'enrichir est leur passion dominante, et à vrai dire leur seule passion."

"Although Champollion was an avowed revolutionary and an enthusiastic Bonapartist, one of his earliest discoveries dis…"

"Arriving in the States, I had the feeling of being thrown into an ocean. The ocean was full of knowledge, culture and…"

"The culture was foreign, the language was difficult, but my hopes were high."

"... many Europeans today go to Pelasgians, who are no less distant or savage, and for equally slight gains, to discov…"

"The woman who loves us is only a woman, but the woman we love is a celestial being whose defects disappear under the …"

"A woman by whom we are loved is a vanity; a woman whom we love is a religion."

"Esteem is the strongest of all sympathies."

"A corrupted and weakened community breaks down in immense catastrophes; the iron harrow of revolutions crushes men li…"

"At the age when the faculties droop, when stern experience has destroyed all sweet illusions, man may seek solitude; …"