Love is the only passion which suffers neither past nor future.

Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival.

There are two kinds of poets: those who feel and those who express themselves. The former are happier.

A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.

According to man's environment, society has made as many different types of men as there are varieties in zoology. The differences between a soldier, a workman, a statesman, a tradesman, a sailor, a poet, a pauper and a priest, are more difficult to seize, but quite considerable as the differences between a wolf, a lion, an ass, a crow, a sea-calf, a sheep, and so on.

Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.

Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.