They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.

A beggar hates his benefactor as much as he hates himself for begging.

To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.

Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.

She is a peacock in everything but beauty!

It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

Everything that is popular is wrong.