Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.

When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.

Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.

To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.