We should like those whom we love to receive all their happiness, or, if this were impossible, all their unhappiness from our hands.

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.

Love seizes us suddenly, without giving warning, and our disposition or our weakness favors the surprise; one look, one glance, from the fair fixes and determines us.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.

A woman with eyes only for one person, or with eyes always averted from him, creates exactly the same impression.