Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise.

It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.

The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.

All we are is in the soul.

Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague.

Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.

By resorting to self-resignation, the unfortunate consummate.