Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.

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

If we study Nature attentively in its great evolutions as in its minutest works, we cannot fail to recognize the possibility of enchantment - giving to that word its exact significance.

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!

I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.

Economized love is never real love.