Unrequited love is as different from the mutual love as the error from the truth.

Experience is always a trustworthy guide; it may not tell you everything, but it never lies.

No place is ugly to those who understand the virtues and sweetness of everything that God has made.

God has written in the law of nature that when two people are joined in love or friendship, one must always give his heart more perfectly than the other.

The life of great geniuses is nothing but a sublime storm.

One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered.

Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?