Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
Our most natural feelings are those we are loath to confess, and fatuity is among them.
Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.
Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.
There is something great and terrible about suicide.