As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
The heart is forever inexperienced.
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, simplify.
Only lovers know the value and magnanimity of truth.
What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
My friend is cold and reserved because his love for me is waxing and not waning.
Make the most of your regrets... To regret deeply is to live afresh.
May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love.
Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one.
Love is so delicate and fastidious that I see not how [it] can ever begin. Do you expect me to love with you, unless you make my love secondary to nothing else?