“All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.”
Art“A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.”
Business“All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.”
Art“Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.”
Equality“A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.”
Love“It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.”
Great“Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.”
Equality“Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.”
Friendship“No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.”
Marriage“It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.”
Time“I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.”
Finance“When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.”
Great“Death unites as well as separates it silences all paltry feeling.”
Death“The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.”
Art“Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.”
Alone“Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect without esteem they cannot exist esteem is the first demand that they make of love.”
Respect“A mother who is really a mother is never free.”
Parenting“A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.”
Good“But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.”
Positive“A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.”
Business“Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.”
Art“The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom to serve all, but love only one.”
Love