To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.

Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.

The cat is a dilettante in fur.

With all women gentleness is the most persuasive and powerful argument.

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

Whatever may have been said of the satiety of pleasure and of the disgust which usually follows passion, any man who has anything of a heart and who is not wretchedly and hopelessly blasé feels his love increased by his happiness, and very often the best way to retain a lover ready to leave is to give one's self up to him without reserve.

Brevity never fatigues; therefore, brevity is always a welcome guest.