The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.

Souls are gregarious in a sense, but no soul touches another, as a general rule.

What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed - and not for pay? Absurd - or insincere?

I would confide to you perhaps my secret profession of faith - which is ... which is ... that let us say and do what we please and can ... there is a natural inferiority of mind in women - of the intellect ... not by any means, of the moral nature - and that the history of Art and of genius testifies to this fact openly.

We have hearts within, Warm, live, improvident, indecent hearts.

Foolishness and criticism are so apt, do so naturally go together!