“Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings
“Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves
“The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.”
“Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object
“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius