When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.

Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos.

The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies.

The intensest form of hatred is that rooted in fear.

Men and women are but children of a larger growth.

I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is.

If you are to rule men, you must rule them through their own ideas.