A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.

The meanest authors have at least this similarity with the great author of heaven and earth, that they usually say after a completed day of work: "And behold, what he had done was good.

When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.

One of the two is almost always a prevailing tendency of every author: either not to say some things which certainly should be said, or to say many things which did not need to be said. The first is the original sin of synthetic natures, the latter of analytical natures.

Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.

Without poetry, religion becomes obscure, false, and malignant; without philosophy, licentious in all wantonness, and lascivious to the point of self-castration.

Gracefulness is a correct life: sensuality which contemplates and forms itself.