Love endows us with a sort of personal religion; we respect another live within ourselves.

A great love is a credit opened in favor of a power so consuming that the moment of bankruptcy must inevitably occur.

Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.

Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.

The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.