To have fame follow us is well, but it is not a desirable avant-courier.

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.

I am not deep, but I am very wide.

Prostitution and robbery are two living protests, respectively female and male, made by the natural state against the social state.

Let passion reach a catastrophe and it submits us to an intoxicating force far more powerful than the niggardly irritation of wine or of opium. The lucidity our ideas then achieve, and the delicacy of our overly exalted sensations, produce the strangest and most unexpected effects.

Does not any limit imposed upon one inspire a desire to go beyond it? Does not our keenest suffering arise when our free will is crossed?

An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities.