The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods.

Women see through each other, but they rarely look into themselves.

No person loving or admiring himself is alone.

To express unafraid and unashamed what one really thinks and feels is one of the great consolations of life.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.

There are only two roads that lead to something like human happiness. They are marked by the words . . . love and achievement. . . . Inorder to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy. . . . The secret of human happiness is not inself-seeking but in self-forgetting.