Contemptuous people are sure to be contemptible.

A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

Narrow waists and narrow minds go together.

Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.

It is passion that makes man live; wisdom makes one only last.

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.

In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity.