I deeply wished I could make the stars all come down and breathe them; disappear in them.

Je connais peu les femmes; mais il me semble qu’il est difficile qu’on admire ce qu’on ne comprend pas.

There are temptations more attractive than angels. Liberty, Patriotism, the good of humanity – words like that are the silver scales of the Tempter’s flaming wings.

The heart that once has been your shrine for other loves is too divine.

If love is a play, this play, as old as the world, fiasco or not, it is, all in all, the least bad thing that has so far been found. The roles are trite, I admit, but if the play had no value the whole universe wouldn’t know it by heart.

In my flowery dreams there’s always you. I do not regret it one bit.

Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives.

I can’t help it, the idea of the infinite torments me.

Things they don’t understand always cause a sensation among the English.

One must not trifle with love.