Yes I have loved, as no one on earth ever loved, with an insensate and furious love, so violent that I wonder it did not break my heart

When we love - we grow

What well-bred woman would refuse her heart to a man who had just saved her life? Not one; and gratitude is a short cut which speedily leads to love.

The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing.

Those horses must have been Spanish jennets, born of mares mated with a zephyr; for they went as swiftly as the wind, and the moon, which had risen at our departure to give us light, rolled through the sky like a wheel detached from its carriage.

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity.