The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
Taste is to literature what bon ton is in society.
Love, supreme power of the heart, mysterious enthusiasm that encloses in itself all poetry, all heroism, all religion!
All music, even if its occasion be a gay one, renders us pensive.
inventiveness is childish, practice sublime.
Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.