Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move…similes arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is your ally and writing ceases to be a struggle.

Poles offer a mobility like that of the wind that blows over the immense plains and marches of Poland. Show a Pole a precipice, and he will leap headlong over it.

Love is the only way on which even the dim-witted reaches certain heights.

If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.

In love, what a woman mistakes for disgust is actually clearsightedness. If she does not admire a man, she scorns him.