The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.

I am not deep, but I am very wide.

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

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

They ended as all great passions do end - by a misunderstanding.

In painting, you can suddenly come upon something so huge that no-one can deal with it.

The pleasures of love proceed successively from a distich to a quatrain, from a quatrain to a sonnet, from a sonnet to a ballad, from a ballad to an ode, from an ode to a cantata, and from a cantata to a dithyramb. A husband who begins with the dithyramb is a fool.