It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form of affection. There is nothing unnatural about it.

The aim of love is to love. No more, no less.

I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the flesh desecrate always, and often destroy.

Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.