Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it-to that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help.

People live for the morrow, because the day-after-to-morrow is doubtful.

Love is more afraid of change than destruction.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

When a man is in love he endures more than at other times; he submits to everything.

Alas for this mad melancholy beast man! What phantasies invade it, what paroxysms of perversity, hysterical senselessness, and mental bestiality break out immediately, at the very slightest check on its being the beast of action.

Only he who is man enough will release the woman in woman.

Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape.

The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self.

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.