Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

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

I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

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.

War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon's proclamations.

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.