The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness and love give. I am man before being a prince, and when I have the good fortune to be in love, my mistress addresses a man and not a prince.

Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.

When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.

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.

Conversationis like the table of contents of a dull book.... All the greatest subjects of human thought are proudly displayedin it. Listen to it for three minutes, and you ask yourself which is more striking, the emphasis of the speaker or his shocking ignorance.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.