The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

I'm yours for ever--for ever and ever. Here I stand; I'm as firm as a rock. If you'll only trust me, how little you'll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.

Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.

I have lived too long in foreign parts

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

...the great merit of the place is that one can arrange one's life here exactly as one pleases...there are facilities for every kind of habit and taste, and everything is accepted and understood.

My sole wish is to frustrate as utterly as possible the post-mortem exploiter.