Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

People happy in love have an air of intensity.

I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction," said Mathilde. "It is the only thing which cannot be bought.

An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.

For the future, I shall rely only upon those elements of my character which I have tested. Who would ever have said that I should find pleasure in shedding tears? That I should love the man who proves to me that I am nothing more than a fool?

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.

Signs cannot be represented, in a spy's report, so damningly as words.