Some people say that beauty is a curse. It may be true, but I'm sure I should not have at all minded being cursed a little.

I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.

Do you think a man is the only creature with whom one may fall in love?

Genius, apart from natural sensitiveness, is prone equally to unreasoning joy and to bitterest morbidness.

The highest thing one can do in literature is to succeed in saying that thing which one meant to say. There is nothing better than that - to make the world see your thoughts as you see them.

It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls.

When a man and a woman love one another that is enough. That is marriage. A religious rite is superfluous. And if the man and woman live together without the love, no ceremony in the world can make it a marriage.