Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
I see when men love women, they give them but a little of their lives. But women, when they love give everything.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
One is absolutely sickened, not by crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.