there is not enough interest in life to spread over twenty-four hours when one can't sleep.
I am glad that I am not a man, for then I should have to marry a woman.
Love, supreme power of the heart, mysterious enthusiasm that encloses in itself all poetry, all heroism, all religion!
The success of any man with any woman is apt to displease even his best friends.
The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
Of all human sentiments, enthusiasm creates the most happiness; it is the only sentiment in fact which gives real happiness, the only sentiment which can help us to bear our human destiny in any situation in which we may find ourselves.