“Beauty: The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband”

“Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. ”

“Love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden. ”

“Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.”

“Love is a dirty trick played on us to achieve the continuation of the species”

“The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do not often do much, the companies never; it is the units, the single individuals, that are the power and the might.”