“O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, -- the first fluttering of its silken wings.
“Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love
“When one is in love one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. This is what the world calls a romance
“To me, fair friend, you never can be old, for as you were when first your eye I eyed, such seems your beauty still.
“All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love
“When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues