It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.

But the valid issue is the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.

Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good.

Nobody, they say, is a hero to his valet. Of course; for a man must be a hero to understand a hero. The valet, I dare say, has great respect for some person of his own stamp.

Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.

Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power.

There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull indifference.