It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one.

I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.

But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.

No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.

In all lands, sailors form a race apart. They profess a congenital contempt for landlubbers. As for the tradesman, he understands nothing of sailors nor cares a fig about them. He is content to rob them if he can.

Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.

Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.