Certaines choses que Napoléon dit des femmes, plusieurs discussiions sur le mérite des romans à la mode sous son règne lui donnèrent alors, pour la première fois, quelques idées que tout autre jeune home de son age aurait eues depuis longtemps.

To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.

The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness and love give. I am man before being a prince, and when I have the good fortune to be in love, my mistress addresses a man and not a prince.

Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.

One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.

A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he

Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.