The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

Heroes are very human, most of them; very easily touched by praise.

History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.

Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.

Admiration involves a glorious obliquity of vision.

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

Women who love the same man have a kind of bitter freemasonry.