As far as I am concerned I would rather spend the rest of my life in prison than marry again.
It is always the best friends who are neglected and ignored.
Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.
Discouragement seizes us only when we can no longer count on chance.
To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self.
I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.