......When one loves, one is only too ready to believe one's love returned.

...joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.

Fool that I am," said he,"that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself".

I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance; but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.

Well, father, in the shipwreck of life, for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes, I cast into the sea my useless encumbrance, that is all, and I remain with my own will, disposed to live perfectly alone, and, consequently, perfectly free. (Eugenie to her father)

So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.