Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.
Show me the woman, however loyal, who does not seek to rouse desire.
The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
Some troubles, like a protested note of a solvent debtor, bear interest.
It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.
Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to their wishes.