Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension.--"Wanda

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.

Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin.

The result may be important but it’s not the actual measure. The measure is the feeling you have made contact with something.

Evil might not prevail in the end, but it certainly doesn't fail to devastate in its time.

In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

The only barrier to truth is the presumption that you already have it.

Monolingualism is the illiteracy of the 21st century!

Remember that animals are born to live their own lives, not to serve you! Do not use them; do not exploit them. Let them live their own lives.

Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woefully small targets.

Forget love. Try good manners.

Sensations are nothing but confused modes of thinking.