breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.

A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.

Were a man to spend only one day in Sicily and ask, "What must one see?" I would answer him without hesitation, "Taormina." It is only a landscape, but a landscape where you find everything on earth that seems made to seduce the eyes, the mind and the imagination.

We breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.

Ale, not beer, in a pewter mug was comme il faut, the only thing for a gentleman of letters, worthy of the name, to drink.

You must render: never report.