There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.

A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.

It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces .

Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable.

Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly

Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.

Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see life as a whole, by which and by which alone we can understand others in their real and their ideal relation. Only what is fine, and finely conceived can feed love. But anything will feed hate.