I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.

Are not poets men who fulfill their hopes prematurely?

But woman brings disorder into society through passion.

We are scarcely apt to berate the source of enjoyment.

Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance

To forget is the great secret of strong creative natures; to forget is the way nature herself who knows no past and who at every hour begins the mysteries of her untiring labors afresh.

The national budget is not a safe-deposit box. It is a spray can.