When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. ... there are no age limits for love.
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.