There is a tendency among men as well as women ... so soon as they have acquired a little knowledge of some kind, to want to display it to the best advantage.

There are as many sorts of women as there are women.

Some ... have imagined that by arousing a baseless suspicion in the mind of the beloved we can revive a waning devotion. But this experiment is very dangerous. Those who recommend it are confident that so long as resentment is groundless one need only suffer it in silence and all will soon be well. I have observed however that this is by no means the case.

A night of endless dreams, inconsequent and wild, is this my life; none more worth telling than the rest.

Who has told you that the fruit belies the flower? For the fruit you have not tasted, and the flower you know but by report.

The memories of long love gather like drifting snow, poignant as the mandarin ducks who float side by side in sleep.

There is a tendency among men as well as women ... so soon as they have acquired a little knowledge of some kind, to want to display it to the best advantage.