Lovers have a way of using this word "nothing" which implies exactly the opposite.

We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked.

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

Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.

Genuine sorrows are very tranquil in appearance in the deep bed they have dug for themselves. But, seeming to slumber, they corrode the soul like that frightful acid which penetrates crystal.

Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her.

In Paris, the greatest expression of personal satisfaction known to man is the smirk on the face of a male, highly pleased with himself as he leaves the boudoir of a lady.