“The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.”

We love because we love.

No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.

He who best knows the world will love it least.

The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.

Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.

Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.

When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.

Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.

The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.

Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.

Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.

We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

It is play and only play that makes man complete.

Movies are the work of a collective conscious. It takes 500-800 people on a movie to complete a vision.

I always try to do something for my husband that’s completely selfless, and something that I hope will rock his world in some form or fashion.

Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, never escaped from it.

The Moor has done his work, the Moor may go.