To describe happiness is to diminish it.

If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.

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.

War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon's proclamations.

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.

Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.