The last excessive feelings of delight are always grave.

Stolen kisses are always sweetest.

The most fascinating women are those that can most enrich the every day moments of existence. In a particular and attaching sense, they are those that can partake our pleasures and our pains in the liveliest and most devoted manner. Beauty is little without this; with it she is triumphant.

There are two worlds: The world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world we feel with our hearts and imaginations.

A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain.

Nature, at all events, humanly speaking, is manifestly very fond of color; for she has made nothing without it. Her skies are blue; her fields, green; her waters vary with her skies; her animals, vegetables, minerals, are all colored. She paints a great any of them in apparently superfluous hues, as if to show the dullest eye how she loves color.

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.