Beautiful things spoil nothing.

Come, let’s be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer.

Casting aspersions on those we love always does something to loosen our ties. We shouldn't maltreat our idols: the gilt comes off on our hands.

Love, to her, was something hat comes suddenly, like a blinding flash of lightening - a heaven-sent storm hurled into life, uprooting it, sweeping every will before it like a leaf, engulfing all feelings.

Whatever the thing you wish to say, there is but one word to express it, but one verb to give it movement, but one adjective to qualify it; you must seek until you find this noun, this verb, this adjective.

The great natures which are good, are above everything generous and don't begrudge the giving of themselves.

One's existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.