If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.

At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.

Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.

There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.