Men of reason have endured;men of passion have lived.

The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.

We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles.

Love is like epidemic diseases. The more one fears it the more likely one is to contract it.

Every woman in choosing a lover takes more account of the way in which other women regard the man than of her own.