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.

God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.

I, who had had my heart full for hours, took advantage of an early moment of solitude, to cry in it very bitterly. Suddenly a little hairy head thrust itself from behind my pillow into my face, rubbing its ears and nose against me in a responsive agitation, and drying the tears as they came.

I begin to think that none are so bold as the timid, when they are fairly roused.

And Chaucer, with his infantine Familiar clasp of things divine.

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

A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips.