Obscurity and Innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world.

Slander is the balm of malignity.

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.

Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Sometimes apparent resemblance of character will bring two men together and for a certain time unite them. But their mistake gradually becomes evident, and they are astonished to find themselves not only far apart, but even repelled, in some sort, at all their points of contact.

A man should swallow a toad every morning to be sure of not meeting with anything more revolting in the day ahead.