Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.

He doesn't want you to be real, and to think and to live. He doesn't love you. But I love you. I want you to have your own thoughts and ideas and feelings, even when I hold you in my arms.

England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

Don't believe those lies about intellectual people. They're only written to soothe the majority.

An acquaintance had become a lover, might become a husband, but would retain all that she had noted in the acquaintance; and love must confirm an old relation rather than reveal a new one.

There's never any great risk as long as you have money.

Don't be mysterious; there isn't the time.