Love may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature; but what is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood? A smile has dried my tears.

Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.

A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.

Most geometricians, chemists, mathematicians, and great scientists submit religion to reason only to discover a problem as unsolvable as that of squaring a circle.

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

There are two kinds of poets: those who feel and those who express themselves. The former are happier.

Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to dispense them from admiration, a vulgar emotion.