To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Conversationis like the table of contents of a dull book.... All the greatest subjects of human thought are proudly displayedin it. Listen to it for three minutes, and you ask yourself which is more striking, the emphasis of the speaker or his shocking ignorance.

Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.

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.

The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.

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.