Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

Be my brother or I will kill you.

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.

Slander is the balm of malignity.

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

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.

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.