Alas! Where love is concerned, self-interested deception is superior to the truth itself, which is why so many men pay so high a price to clever deceivers.

The more one judges, the less one loves.

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.

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

Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!

Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.

Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.

Reading brings us unknown friends

All happiness depends on courage and work.

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

Living did not mean one joy piled upon another. It was merely the hope for less pain...

Control yourself, it is not worth it. You will regret your rudeness afterwards, your sensitive nature will be troubled

I think of how perhaps the best way to fly would be with hands full of earth, so you always remember where you came from.

These are the poems of a traveler and a lover who feels both the terror of time passing and the consolation of eternity. From such tension spring lovely poetic objects, ready for intelligent use.

[T]here is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing.

Heroics are not easily had for the young in our times. Perhaps that is why they go to such extremes to create their own dangers.

Women perform great in the box office. Audiences want to see lead female characters.

It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity.

If we have never been amazed by the very fact that we exist, we are squandering the greatest fact of all.

I don't believe in luck. There are things that you have to work hard for.