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

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

Taste is to literature what bon ton is in society.

A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life.

Love, supreme power of the heart, mysterious enthusiasm that encloses in itself all poetry, all heroism, all religion!

Tombs decked by the arts can scarcely represent death as a formidable enemy; we do not, indeed, like the ancients, carve sports and dances in the sarcophagus, but thought is diverted from the bier by works that tell of immortality, even from the altar of death.

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.