A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.

What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.

By and large, women have a faith and a morality peculiar to themselves; they believe in the reality of everything that serves their interest and their passions.

We do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing.

The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.

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.

Genius is answerable only to itself; it is the sole judge of the means, since it alone knows the end; thus genius must consider itself as above the law, for it is the task of genius to remake the law; moreover the man who frees himself from his time and place may take everything, hazard everything, for everything is his by right.