Men are cowards when it comes to the "eternally feminine": and the little women know it.

A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.

This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!

The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us.

Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out.

Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.

But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!