All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful by contrast.
Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world.
If you create a character, you create a destiny.
We don't love a woman for what she says, we like what she says because we love her.
Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.