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.

I cannot help it - in spite of myself, infinity torments me.

The most disagreeable thing that your worst enemy says to your face does not approach what your best friends say behind your back.

Oh! my friend, when you feel bursting on your lips the vow of eternal love, do not be afraid to yield, but do not confound wine with intoxication; do not think the cup divine because the draft is of celestial flavor; do not be astonished to find it broken and empty in the evening.

I have come too late into a world too old.

The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.