A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.

What is art? Nature concentrated.

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.

Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.

Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence.

Little minds find satisfaction for their feelings, good or bad, in little things.

A monster which devours everything - that is familiarity.