She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.

The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me

I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.

To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes

They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.