Our true passions are selfish.
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.
Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.