Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.

How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!

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

When one of those skirt-bearing animals has set herself up above all by permitting herself to be deified, no power on earth can be as proud as she.

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.