What is art? Nature concentrated.

When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power.

Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.

No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.

From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.

In a world of hunchbacks, a fine figure becomes a monstrosity.

Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.