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.
Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
To describe happiness is to diminish it.