We love because we love.

Society is no more indulgent than was the God of Genesis.

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

The greatest joy a petty soul can taste is to dupe a great soul and catch it in a snare.

Behind every fortune there is a crime.

I declare, on my soul and conscience, that the attainment of power, or of a great name in literature, seemed to me an easier victory than a success with some young, witty, and gracious lady of high degree.

Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.