The smoke of glory is not worth the smoke of a pipe.

There is only one sex. A man and a woman are so entirely the same thing that one can scarcely understand the subtle reasons for sex distinctions with which our minds are filled.

honesty dies in selling itself.

fretting at trouble only doubles it.

My strength has not equaled my mad ambition. I have remained obscure; I have done worse -- I have touched success, and allowed it to escape me.

we do not die of anguish, we live on. We continue to suffer. We drink the cup drop by drop.

Where love is absent there can be no woman.