When a man is in love very little is enough to throw him into despair and as little to enhance his joy to the utmost.

If you want to make people laugh, your face must remain serious.

I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it in my power to give them substantial proofs of my gratitude.

They are the follies inherent to youth; I make sport of them, and, if you are kind, you will not yourself refuse them a good-natured smile.

Love is only a feeling of curiousity more or less intense, grafted upon the inclination placed in us by nature that the species may be preserved.

The raging fire which urged us on was scorching us; it would have burned us had we failed to restrain it.

If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read.