The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move…similes arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is your ally and writing ceases to be a struggle.

The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.

If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.

Marriage is a fierce battle before which the two partners ask heaven for its blessing, because loving each other is the most audacious of enterprises; the battle is not slow to start, and victory, that is to say freedom, goes to the cleverest.

Conventions are often more cruel than the law.

The love of nature is the only love that does not deceive human hopes.