Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.

It was an accident that has endowed man with intelligence. He has made use of it: he invented stupidity.

The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws

Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.

When a man gets up to speak, people listen, then look. When a woman gets up, people look; then, if they like what they see, they listen.

If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be --not understood, but divined.