Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.
The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best.
Where there is no longer love, there is no longer anything.
If people were not wicked I should not mind their being stupid; but, to our misfortune, they are both.
... love is too delicate a flower to rise again when one has trampled it under foot.
almost all novels are love stories.