The first-rate mind is always curious, compassionate, original, and pessimistic.
Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money.
If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors.
The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.
Vanity, revenge, loneliness, boredom, all apply: lust is one of the least of the reasons for promiscuity.
A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.