True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!

Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.

To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

Women themselves are so happy, and so beautiful, when they're strong, that they naturally choose powerful men, even if that power's so enermous there's a real risk it could shatter them.

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint when we are placed in a false position.

Are not poets men who fulfill their hopes prematurely?