The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.
All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.
He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to the point of idolatry: I loved him as one can never love twice.
The best way to be boring is to include everything.
Let us read, and let us dance — these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.