One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.

Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.

Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Jean Jacques Rousseauis nothing but a fool in my eyes when he takes it upon himself to criticise society; he did not understand it, and approached it with the heart of an upstart flunkey.... For all his preaching a Republic and the overthrow of monarchical titles, the upstart is mad with joy if a Duke alters the course of his after-dinner stroll to accompany one of his friends.