Happy are those lovers who, when their senses require rest, can fall back upon the intellectual enjoyments afforded by the mind! Sweet sleep then comes, and lasts until the body has recovered its general harmony. On awaking, the senses are again active and always ready to resume their action.

The story she had told me was possible, but it was not believable.

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.

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.

Praise the beautiful for their intelligence and the intelligent for their beauty.

Beauty without wit offers nothing but the enjoyment of its material charms, whilst witty ugliness captivates by the charms of the mind, and at last fulfils all the desires of the man it has captivated.

From that moment our love became sad, and sadness is a disease which gives the death-blow to affection.