When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power.

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

Love is a religion, and its rituals cost more than those of other religions. It goes by quickly and, like a street urchin, it likes to mark its passage by a trail of devastation.

Love based upon money and vanity forms the most stubborn of passions.

What a thing of fantasy a woman may become after dusk.

Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact.

Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.