The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism

As long as we love, we can forgive.

Novelty is to love like bloom to fruit; it gives a luster which is easily effaced, but never returns.

There are two sorts of constancy in love one arises from continually discovering in the loved person new subjects for love, the other arises from our making a merit of being constant.

One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.

It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a weak character, which easily changes into asperity.

Customary use of artifice is the sign of a small mind, and it almost always happens that he who uses it to cover one spot uncovers himself in another.