I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

No frozen-hearted woman ever I laid eyes on but has made duty her religion.

If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.

Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.

Virtue, my pet, is an abstract idea, varying in its manifestations with the surroundings. Virtue in Provence, in Constantinople, in London, and in Paris bears very different fruit, but is none the less virtue.

Imagination helps the realism of every detail, and only sees the beauties of the work.

A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.