All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
Books are the mirrors of the soul.
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
Why are women [...] so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.