I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.

Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

I declare, on my soul and conscience, that the attainment of power, or of a great name in literature, seemed to me an easier victory than a success with some young, witty, and gracious lady of high degree.

Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.

Love is a religion, and its rituals cost more than those of other religions. It goes by quickly and, like a street urchin, it likes to mark its passage by a trail of devastation.

Once she has committed sin, there is nothing left for the Protestant woman, whereas the Catholic Church, hope of forgiveness makes a woman sublime.