A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.

The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world

Sometimes the impact of Mozart's music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.

Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.

Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?

Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.

God's only excuse is that he does not exist.