Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.

Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.

A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.

Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.

Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm.

According to man's environment, society has made as many different types of men as there are varieties in zoology. The differences between a soldier, a workman, a statesman, a tradesman, a sailor, a poet, a pauper and a priest, are more difficult to seize, but quite considerable as the differences between a wolf, a lion, an ass, a crow, a sea-calf, a sheep, and so on.