Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins.
To possess a good cognomen is a long way on the road of success in life.
Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame.
All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
There is no history worthy attention save that of free nations; the history of nations under the sway of despotism is no more than a collection of anecdotes.
All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.