How much past there is in a life, however brief it be.
Anything that happens gradually is always irrevocable.
Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
[On Napoleon:] One has the impression of an imperious wind blowing about one's ears when one is near that man.
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.