“To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.”

“There was something in his face that made one trust him at once. All the candour of youth was there, as well as youth's passionate purity. One felt that he had kept himself unspotted from the world.”

“Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.”

“But youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.”

“Of course married life is merely a habit, a bad habit. But then one regrets the loss even of one's worse habits.”

“Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible”

“To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.”