You want to talk to someone; first open your ears.
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.
The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth,--that is the secret of the fine arts.
Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals.
There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment.