Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!

Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world of interests, composed of stormy passions and conflicting atoms

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

Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.

You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.

I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.