The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.
Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.
The most powerful soporific is sleep itself.
It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.
A picture's beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her.