When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.