intellect is a sin that must be atoned for by leading exactly the life of those who have none.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time.

There are only two distinct classes of people on this earth, those who espouse enthusiasm and those who despise it.

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.

It seems to me that we become more dear one to the other, in together admiring works of art, which speak to the soul by their true grandeur.

The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.

... in the history of the human mind there has never been a useful thought or a profound truth that has not found its century and admirers.