Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.
What I need is a woman who is something, anything: either very beautiful or very kind or in the last resort very wicked; very witty or very stupid, but something.
Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples.
Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives
The life of a devotee is a crusade of which the heart is the Holy Land.
Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows.