Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.

A good book is an event in my life.

Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.

Women prefer emotions to reasoning.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

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

Far less envy in America than in France.