Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.

Sex is the most respectable and holy thing in all creation, the most serious act in life.

I'm not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty.

As far as I am concerned I would rather spend the rest of my life in prison than marry again.

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

One never knows how much a family may grow; and when a hive is too full, and it is necessary to form a new swarm, each one thinks of carrying away his own honey.