Women will not suffer their idol to step down from his pedestal. They do not forgive the slightest pettiness in a god.
Women like to perform prodigies, break rocks, and soften natures which seem of iron.
Women can only love; men act; they have a thousand ways in which they are bound to act. But we can only think, and pray, and worship.
Wit is thought to be a quality rare in comedians. It is so natural to suppose that persons who spend their lives in showing things on the outside have nothing within.
When women are secretly to blame they often show ostensibly the utmost womanly pride. It is a dissimulation of mind for which we ought to be obliged to them. The deception is full of dignity, if not of grandeur.
When she plays, an actress can live no life of her own; she can neither dress, nor eat, nor talk.
What woman wants pity? A man’s sternness is to us our only pardon.
There is one way of saying that word “nothing” between lovers which signifies its exact contrary.
There is often more pleasure in suffering than in happiness; look at the martyrs!
There is no good fete without a morrow.
The problem of eternal beatitude is one of those whose solution is known only to God. Here, below, the sublimest poets have simply harassed their readers when attempting to picture paradise.
The man who can perpetually bring his thought to bear upon his facts is a man of genius; but the man of the highest genius does not display genius at all times; if he did, he would be like to God.