We must know the measure of a man's desires before we can sound the depth of his regrets.
In life there are no Unities, but three Incomprehensibles: Destiny, Man, and Woman.
love comes to man through his senses - to woman through her imagination.
All is vanity, and discovering it - the greatest vanity.
What is beautiful is right: what is unbeautiful is wrong.
There is no misery quite so wearing as the misery of a false position. It seems to slay the body and the soul.