To know how to dispense with things is to possess them.

We love without reason, and without reason we hate.

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

To be able to dispense with good things is tantamount to possessing them.

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.

Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.

Ceremony is necessary in Courts, as the outwork and defense of manners.

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.

Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

It feeds and grows on the blood which it sheds. The passions , from which it springs, gain strength and fury from indulgence.