A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

The difference breeds hatred.

Every true passion thinks only of itself.

What is really beautiful must always be true.

Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.

A good book is an event in my life.

Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

I see but one rule: to be clear.

Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.

If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.

Women prefer emotions to reasoning.

When you want to court a woman, court her sister first

I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.

God's only excuse is that he does not exist.

I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.

Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.