Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

doubt seems the only purity for those who are too fervent to deny, and too lucid to affirm.

I judge people's charm by the ease with which I express myself in their presence.

A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Avoid that romantic trap: saying more than you feel, forcing yourself to feel more than you've said!

Being bilingual is like having a wife and a mistress. One can never be sure of either.