Flowers belong to Fairyland: the flowers and the birds and the butterflies are all that the world has kept of its golden age--the only perfectly beautiful things on earth--joyous, innocent, half divine--useless, say they who are wiser than God.

An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

Count art by gold, and it fetters the feet it once winged.

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

It is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings; it is the soft, luscious south wind which lulls them to lotus dreams.

The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn.

nothing is so pleasant ... as to display your worldly wisdom in epigram and dissertation, but it is a trifle tedious to hear another person display theirs.