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 very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

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

The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.

I have a bad memory for facts.