Children from humble families must be taught how to command just as other children must be taught how to obey.

The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned.

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

The criminal is quite frequently not equal to his deed: he belittles and slanders it.

At present I am light, now I fly, now I see myself below me, now a god dances through me.

Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not even when she had scarcely a rag on her back.

It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin, on the essential fact of our life.