“First I loved women, then animals, and now I love stones. They're just as amusing as women and animals and they're much less trecherous.”

“The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young”

“If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.”

“The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.”

“The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.”

“Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls.”

“The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the first symptom in a woman, it's boldness.”