It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.

The world will avenge itself upon all happiness in which it has no share.

Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.

If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one ... he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon de-cency.

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.