Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
...one of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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.
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
I have a bad memory for facts.
It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.