We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Without the great arts which speak to the sense of beauty, a man seems to me a poor, naked, shivering creature. These are his becoming draperies, which warm and adorn him.

No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love.

Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity. If a man should consider the nicety of the passage of a piece of bread down his throat, he would starve.

Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.

Women see through Claude Lorraines.

For the time of towns is tolled from the world by funereal chimes, but in nature the universal hours are counted by succeeding tribes of animals and plants, and by growth of joy on joy.