“Female personality is insubstantiality ennobled by unconsciousness”

“We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.”

“Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength”

“A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards”

“This is something that I cannot get over, that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character”

“The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomes”