I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated, Especially since it lives and lets me live.

Let no one be ashamed to say yes today if yesterday he said no. Or to say no today if yesterday he said yes. For that is life. Never to have changed-what a pitiable thing of which to boast!

There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.

I hate all explanations; they who make them deceive either themselves or the other party,-generally both.

Very few people love others for what they are; rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them.

We love a girl for very different qualities than understanding. We love her for her beauty, her youth, her mirth, her confidingness, her character, with its faults, caprices and God knows what other inexpressible charms; but we do not love her understanding.

We don't get to know anything but what we love.