Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

Change in fashion is the tax which the industry of the poor levies on the vanity of the rich

The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.