Nothing Is Irredeemably Ugly But Sin.

Conventions Are Often More Cruel Than The Law.

Genuine Sorrows Are Very Tranquil In Appearance In The Deep Bed They Have Dug For Themselves. But, Seeming To Slumber, They Corrode The Soul Like That Frightful Acid Which Penetrates Crystal.

Constancy Will Always Be The Genius Of Love, The Indication Of That Strength Which Constitutes The Poet. A Man Should Possess All Women In His Wife, Like Those Squalid Poetasters Of The Seventeenth Century Who Made Fair Irises And Dazzling Chloes Of Their Lowly Manons.

The Most Real Of All Splendors Are Not In Outward Things, They Are Within Us.

People Who Climb From One Rung Of Society To Another Can Never Do Anything Simply.