True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.

Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life.

There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.

Love of country produces among men such examples as Cincinnatus, Alfred, Washington--pure, unselfish, symmetrical; among women, Vittoria Colonna, Madame Roland, Charlotte Corday, Jeanne Darc--romantic, devoted, marvelous.

Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.

Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection.

An artist should have more than two eyes.