When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.

Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.

I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.