Thinking is seeing.... Every human science is based on deduction, which is a slow process of seeing by which we work up from the effect to the cause; or, in a wider sense, all poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.

We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.

Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.

The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.

Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.

A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.

To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when we expose the impotence of gold.