I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to lose and to resign myself.

The first indication of a young person's growing smarter is that he no longer understands the things which he used to consider quite intelligible and self-evident.

Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.

No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.

Love! Hate! Is there no third?

A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.

A man may welcome his beloved with circumstance, but a woman's love and her concern for his well-being are discreet.