Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.

A great love is a credit opened in favor of a power so consuming that the moment of bankruptcy must inevitably occur.

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.

Now literary success can only be won in solitude by persevering labor.

There are two kinds of poets: those who feel and those who express themselves. The former are happier.

I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.

Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to dispense them from admiration, a vulgar emotion.