To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You're supposed to seem bored.
God's only excuse is that he does not exist.
I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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.