Most women wish to feel that their spirit has been violated. Do they not, indeed, flatter themselves on never yielding save to force?

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.

Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to their wishes.

Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.

Love which economizes is never true love.

If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.

The greatest joy a petty soul can taste is to dupe a great soul and catch it in a snare.