Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks.

The success of any man with any woman is apt to displease even his best friends.

[Moralistic] novels are at the same disadvantage as teachers: children never believe them, because they make everything that happens relate to the lesson at hand.

Love which is only an episode in the life of men, is the entire history of the life of women.

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time.

How true it is that, sooner or later, the' most rebellious must bow beneath the yoke of misfortune!