All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name.

Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.

A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.

I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world; for there are always some whom one can love.

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.

There is only one science, love, one riches, love, only one policy, love. To make love is all the law and the prophets.