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.

When you want to court a woman, court her sister first

Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.

...one of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.

But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.

This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.

When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.