Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

Men born in hot countries love the night because it refreshes them and have a horror of light because it burns them.

Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive. To know and to will are two operations of the human mind. Discerning, judging, deliberating are acts of the human mind.

The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses.