Transcendence: that which transcends experience.

Praised be the good willing women who understand and take part in the fun--the body is an exacting beater, and even the heart is made of flesh.

Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.

Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!

The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.

I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to lose and to resign myself.

What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.