To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy's report, so damningly as words.
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
What is really beautiful must always be true.
Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.