Strong currents drag many stones and bushes along with them, strong intellects many dense and muddled minds.

The form of a work of art, which gives speech to their thoughts and is, therefore, their mode of talking, is always somewhat uncertain, like all kinds of speech.

We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way- not at all or in an interesting manner

Woman learns how to hate in proportion as she forgets how to charm.

There is always a certain noise in applause: even in the applause we give ourselves.

The wittiest authors evoke a barely perceptible smile.

Some men have sighed over the abduction of their wives, but many more have sighed because no one wanted to abduct theirs.