The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
In smart society men are jealous of one another after the fashion of women.
An ounce of courage will go farther with women than a pound of timidity.
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste.