“There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.”
Great“It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.”
Music“There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.”
Great“Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.”
Art“Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.”
Love“Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.”
Marriage“Death unites as well as separates it silences all paltry feeling.”
Death“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.”
Power“If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.”
Art“The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.”
Art“No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.”
Marriage“Power is action the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.”
Power“Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.”
Business“Finance, like time, devours its own children.”
Finance“Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.”
Love“One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.”
Anniversary“A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.”
Good“The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.”
Marriage“A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.”
Love“Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.”
Society“All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.”
Art“Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.”
Nature