An angel! Nonsense! Everybody so describes his mistress; and yet I find it impossible to tell you how perfect she is, or why she is so perfect: suffice it to say she has captivated all my senses.

This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us.

Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.

The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.