Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
Word-carpentry is like any other kind of carpentry: you must join your sentences smoothly.
The power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man.
Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.