With monuments as with men, position means everything.

Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims.

Love which economizes is never true love.

Tradesmen regard an author with a mixed feeling of terror, compassion and curiosity.

Our energies are often stimulated by the necessity of supporting a being weaker than ourselves.

Nothing is unimportant to a man plunged in despair. He is as credulous as a criminal sentenced to death who listens to a lunatic raving to him about how he can escape through the keyhole.

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.