“Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are. ”

“Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them ”

“If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. ”

“I love those who yearn for the impossible”

“Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole”

“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves”