Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

We are scarcely apt to berate the source of enjoyment.

When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.

Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.

Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival.

Virginity, like all monstrosities, possesses special riches and its own absorbing grandeur. Among the chaste, life forces are economized and thus gain in resistance and durability.

Though your vulgarian does not readily admit that feelings can change overnight, certainly two lovers often part far more abruptly than they came together.