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

A good book is an event in my life.

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.

Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.

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

To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You're supposed to seem bored.

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.