Women only love those that they don’t know.

If only people thought a little more about it, they would see that life is not worrying about so much.

An unusual beginning must have an unusual end.

Russian ladies, for the most part, cherish only Platonic love, without mingling any thought of matrimony with it; and Platonic love is exceedingly embarrassing.

There are two men in me--one lives in the full sense of the word, the other reasons and passes judgment on the first. The first will perhaps take leave of you and the world forever in an hour now; and the second . . . the second?

No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend

Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.