Imagination helps the realism of every detail, and only sees the beauties of the work.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

They ended as all great passions do end - by a misunderstanding.

Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

Necessity is the spur of genius.

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

A penniless man who has no ties to bind him is master of himself at any rate, but a luckless wretch who is in love no longer belongs to himself, and may not take his own life. Love makes us almost sacred in our own eyes; it is the life of another that we revere within us; then and so begins for us the cruelest trouble of all.