Sometimes the impact of Mozart's music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.

It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.

Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.

A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.

Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.

Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. ... there are no age limits for love.

Signs cannot be represented, in a spy's report, so damningly as words.