I not only want to be loved, I want to be told that I'm loved.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

I don't mind how many letters I receive from one who interests me as much as you do. The receptive part of correspondence I can carry on with much alacrity. It is writing answers that I groan over.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.

Effective magic is transcendent nature.

Unwonted circumstances may make us all rather unlike ourselves: there are conditions under which the most majestic person is obliged to sneeze, and our emotions are liable to be acted on in the same incongruous manner.