A great love is an absolute isolation and an absolute absorption.

Genius cannot escape the taint of its time more than a child the influence of its begetting.

Christianity is a formula: it is nothing more.

A little scandal is an excellent thing; nobody is ever brighter or happier of tongue than when he is making mischief of his neighbors.

I have known men who have been sold and bought a hundred times, who have only got very fat and very comfortable in the process of exchange.

Friendship is usually treated...as a tough...thing which will survive all manner of bad treatment. But this is an exceedingly great and foolish error; it may die in an hour of a single unwise word.

We only see clearly when we have reached the depths of woe.