If she gives me all her time it is because I have all her heart.

People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and art, but according to the immutable principles of the art of composition, and the special laws of their individual temperaments.

One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.

Religion, Society, and Nature--these are the three struggles of man.

Wherever the Turkish hoof trods, no grass grows.

Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children.

For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.