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

A strange effect of marriage, such as the nineteenth century has made it! The boredom of married life inevitably destroys love, when love has preceded marriage. And yet, as a philosopher has observed, it speedily brings about, among people who are rich enough not to have to work, an intense boredom with all quiet forms of enjoyment. And it is only dried up hearts, among women, that it does not predispose to love.

When you want to court a woman, court her sister first

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.

Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.

I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.

I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.