The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.

English Law: where there are two alternatives: one intelligent, one stupid; one attractive, one vulgar; one noble, one ape-like; one serious and sincere, one undignified and false; one far-sighted, one short; EVERYBODY will INVARIABLY choose the latter.

A great writer created a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication.