Unhappy love freezes all our affections: our own souls grow inexplicable to us. More than we gained while we were happy we lose by the reverse.

women have no existence except in love; the history of their life begins and ends with love!

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'

In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

Love is admiring with the heart. And admiring is loving with the mind.

The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.