Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.

Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.

Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man

Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable.

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

A woman, even a prude, is not long at a loss, however dire her plight. She would seen always to have in hand the fig leaf our Mother Eve bequeathed to her.

To forget is the great secret of strong creative natures; to forget is the way nature herself who knows no past and who at every hour begins the mysteries of her untiring labors afresh.