The jealous are the readiest of all to forgive, and all women know it.

I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.

Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road- there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.

Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.

To begin with unlimited freedom is to end with unlimited despotism.

If the spirit has passed through a great many sensations, possibly it can no longer be sated with them, but grows more excited, and demands more sensations, and stronger and stronger ones, until at length it falls exhausted.