The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous.
Love, supreme power of the heart, mysterious enthusiasm that encloses in itself all poetry, all heroism, all religion!
Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.
Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination.