Phychical pain is more easily borne than physical; and if I had my choice between a bad conscience and a bad tooth, I should choose the former.

Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.

Oh, they loved dearly: their souls kissed, they kissed with their eyes, they were both but one single kiss.

A blaspheming Frenchman is a spectacle more pleasing to the Lord than a praying Englishman.

In the image of the lion made He kittens small and curious.

I live! Red life boils in my veins, earth yields beneath my feet, in the glow of love I embrace trees and statues, and they live in my embrace. Every woman is to me the gift of a world. I revel in the melody of her countenance, and with a single glance of my eye I can enjoy more than others with their every limb through all their lives.

Perfumes are the feelings of flowers, and as the human heart, imagining itself alone and unwatched, feels most deeply in the night-time, so seems it as if the flowers, in musing modesty, await the mantling eventide ere they give themselves up wholly to feeling...