Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.

Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.

Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.

The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.