Passion is univeral humanity. Without it religion, history, art, and romance would be useless.

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.

Behind every great fortune there is a crime.

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

This coffee plunges into the stomach...the mind is aroused, and ideas pour forth like the battalions of the Grand Army on the field of battle.... Memories charge at full gallop...the light cavalry of comparisons deploys itself magnificently; the artillery of logic hurry in with their train of ammunition; flashes of wit pop up like sharp-shooters.

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

The more one judges, the less one loves.

All human power is a compound of time and patience.

I am a galley slave to pen and ink.

Economized love is never real love.

Imagination helps bring out the realism of every detail and only sees the beauties of the work.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

No man should marry before he has studied anatomy and dissected the body of a woman.

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.

A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time.

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.