If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.

Whoever lives true life, will love true love.

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.

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.

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.

A woman's pity sometimes makes her mad.

Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love. Yet love me--wilt thou? Open thine heart wide, And fold within, the wet wings of thy dove.