A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought.

Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.

Vulgar souls look hastily and superficially at the sea and accuse it of monotony; other more privileged beings could spend a lifetime admiring it and discovering new and changing phenomena that delight them. So it is with love.

The woman you buy takes a great deal of money. The woman who gives herself to you takes all your money.

Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect.

Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it.

A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination.