The room was very full of notable people of all sorts, and the tide of chattering was running very strong.

"How can anything last long in France ?" said he, in reply to my having said (in answer to his assertion that Cousin's philosophy had gone by) that it had been somewhat short-lived.

"Reputations are made and pass away.

It is impossible that they should endure.

It is in such places as this that they are destroyed.