In love matters; keep your pen from paper.

Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest

I could not clearly distinguish what was passing in my head; it seemed to me that I was under the influence of a horrible dream and that I had but to awake to find myself cured; at times it seemed that my entire life had been a dream, ridiculous and childish, the falseness of which had just been disclosed.

One must not trifle with love

Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine; do not become intoxicated.

A lively retrospect summons back to us once more our youth, with vivid reflex of its early joys and unstained pleasures.

It was one of those somber evenings when the sighing of the wind resembles the moans of a dying man; a storm was brewing, and between the splashes of rain on the windows there was the silence of death. All nature suffers in such moments; the trees writhe in pain and twist their heads; the birds of the fields cower under the bushes; the streets of cities are deserted.