Autumn is no time to lie alone

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.

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

One ought not to be unkind to a woman merely on account of her plainness, any more than one had a right to take liberties with her merely because she was handsome

Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams.

Intimacy between stepchildren and stepparents is indeed proverbially difficult.

In few people is discretion stronger than the desire to tell a good story.