Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth; I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important.

Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself alive. The aim of Love is to love: no more, and no less. You were my enemy: such an enemy as no man ever had. I had given you all my life, and to gratify the lowest and most contemptible of all human passions, hatred and vanity and greed, you had thrown it away. In less than three years you had entirely ruined me in every point of view. For my own sake there was nothing for me to do but to love you.

Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.

I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like to.

We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.

No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she has got a memory or not.