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 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.

The difference breeds hatred.

I no longer find such pleasure in that preeminently good society, of which I was once so fond. It seems to me that beneath a cloak of clever talk it proscribes all energy, all originality. If you are not a copy, people accuse you of being ill-mannered.

Sometimes the impact of Mozart's music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. ... there are no age limits for love.