Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.

Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins.

Nearly all men are slaves for the same reason that the Spartans assigned for the servitude of the Persians -- lack of power to pronounce the syllable, "No." To be able to utter that word and live alone, are the only means to preserve one's freedom and one's character.

In the library of the world men have hitherto been ranged according to the form, and the binding; the time is coming when they will take rank and order according to their contents and intrinsic merits.

Egotism is the tongue of vanity.

Men's hearts and faces are always wide asunder; women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror-like in the instant power of reflection.

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society