When one of those skirt-bearing animals has set herself up above all by permitting herself to be deified, no power on earth can be as proud as she.

Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.

A knowledge of mankind and of things that surround us gives us that second education which proves far move valuable than our first because it alone turns out a truly accomplished man.

Thinking is seeing.... Every human science is based on deduction, which is a slow process of seeing by which we work up from the effect to the cause; or, in a wider sense, all poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.

Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown.

Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.

Priests, magistrates and ladies never quite take off their gowns.