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

When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.

Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.

Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.

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.

Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.