It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one's generation.

One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.

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.

It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.

This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregiousof sins.... It is one step away from protestantism.

I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.

An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.