A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.

The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.

The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.

The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.