Why is youth so short and age so long?

You know the Ark of Israel and the calf of Belial were both made of gold. Religion has never yet changed the metal of her one adoration.

It is a kind of blindness--poverty. We can only grope through life when we are poor, hitting and maiming ourselves against every angle.

Women hope that the dead love may revive; but men know that of all dead things none are so past recall as a dead passion.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

The loss of our illusions is the only loss from which we never recover.

Friendship needs to be rooted in respect, but love can live upon itself alone