Beautiful coquettes are quacks of love.

The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.

We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones.

Everyone agrees that a secret should be kept intact, but everyone does not agree as to the nature and importance of secrecy. Too often we consult ourselves as to what we should say, what we should leave unsaid. There are few permanent secrets, and the scruple against revealing them will not last forever.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

There are some people who would never have fallen in love if they had not heard there was such a thing.

Few things are impossible in themselves: application to make them succeed fails us more often than the means.