When our desires are fulfilled, we never fail to realize the wealth of imagination and the paucity of reality.

There is a certain time of life, when we value a good stomach more than the mind.

Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly.

Who has not raised a tombstone, here and there, over buried hopes and dead joys, on the road of life? Like the scars of the heart, they are not to be obliterated.

I have always sworn to my lovers to love them eternally, but for me eternity is a quarter of an hour.

Gentleness! more powerful than Hercules.

The loss of friends is a tax on age!