
History ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries.

Love always betrays its intentions.

Words express only the feelings we know already.

One should make one's life a mosaic. Let the general design be good, the colors lively, and the materials diversified ...

Marriage was a calamity, but it was not an occupation.

The birth of love is always accompanied by the idea of solitude. A single being appears, and the rest of the world grows empty.

The affairs of the royal house form a subject of conversation for those who, as a rule, would have no conversation.