The very condition of Woman is so subject to Hazard, so complex, and so grievous, that to place her at one moment is but to displace her at the next.

Only the impossible lasts forever.

The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.

You beat the liver out of a goose to get a pâté; you pound the muscles of a man's cardia to get a philosopher.

I've seen death and I didn't like it.

I can draw and write, and you'd be foolish not to hire me.

No man needs curing of his individual sickness; his universal malady is what he should look to.