All extremes are dangerous.

A million candles burnt in him without his being at the trouble of lighting a single one

Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.

Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action.

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

It's my choice, to choose how to live my life.

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.