If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.

By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.

A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.

Why am I going?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I am going in order to be where you are," said he. "I cannot do otherwise." "Not a word, not a movement of yours will I ever forget, nor can I.

I'm getting old, that's the thing! What's in me now won't be there anymore.

A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated.