The end of a melody is not its goal; but nonetheless, if the melody had not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.

Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy.

A small revenge is more human than no revenge at all.

The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.

Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy.

You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.

The perfect woman perpetrates literature as she perpetrates a small sin: as an experiment, in passing, glancing around to see whether anybody notices--and to make sure that somebody notices.