Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.

Thinking is seeing.... Every human science is based on deduction, which is a slow process of seeing by which we work up from the effect to the cause; or, in a wider sense, all poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.

Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.

A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination.

They [twin beds] are the most stupid, the most perfidious, and the most dangerous invention in the world. Shame and a curse on who thought of them.

I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.

Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!