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.
A great love is an absolute isolation and an absolute absorption.
Christianity is a formula: it is nothing more.
To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
Great men always have dogs.
The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn.