Christianity has ever been the enemy of human love.

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

The problem with being an author in this modern world is such: computers break often

One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.

I wouldn't know what to do with another chance if you gave it to me.

I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.

The new Haitian baseball can't weigh more than four ounces or less than five.

In Great Britain, woman was subordinate and confined. But at least she was also safe.

All of the great whales are endangered.

While we cannot choose how we will die, we can always choose how we will live.

A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right-minded man without forethought or with reserve.