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.

If I meet the Christian Deity, I am lost: He is a tyrant and as such, is full of ideas of vengeance; His Bible speaks of nothing but fearful punishments. I never loved Him! I could never even believe that anyone did love Him sincerely. He is devoid of pity.... He will punish me in some abominable manner.

A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he

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.

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

To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You're supposed to seem bored.

The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.