[Great artists] do not copy what they see, but what they desire.

[A cat] will make itself the companion of your hours of work, of loneliness, or of sadness.

The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist.

No one is truly dead until they are no longer loved.

Good heavens! what a foolish thing is this pretended perfectibility of the human race which is continually being dinned into our ears!

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.

Books follow morals, and not morals books.