A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.

Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?

It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.

On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.

The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.

Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.