When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You're supposed to seem bored.
Far less envy in America than in France.
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
Sometimes the impact of Mozart's music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.