A modicum of discord is the very spice of courtship.

Vivre est un maladie dont le sommeil nous soulage toutes les 16 heures. C'est un pallatif. La mort est le remede.

There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.

In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.

The majority of the books of our time give one the impression of having been manufactured in a day out of books read the day before.

Marriage, as practised by high society, is arranged indecency.