Love is the only way on which even the dim-witted reaches certain heights.

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

Nothing can afford a woman greater pleasure than to hear tender words of love. The strictest, most devout woman will listen even if she must not answer.

One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others.

Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.

Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune.