Great women belong to history and to self-sacrifice, not to the annals of a stage, however dignified.

Many birds and beasts are...as fit to go to Heaven as many human beings - people who talk of their seats there with as much confidence as if they had booked them at a box office.

"Books ... books, ..." he exclaims. It is those that teach us to refine on our pleasures when young, and which, having so taught us, enable us to recall them with satisfaction when old.

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.

An author is like a baker; it is for him to make the sweets, and others to buy and enjoy them.

The fish is swift, small-needing, vague yet clear, A cold, sweet, silver life, wrapped in round waves.

Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment.