"Venus eternal (caprice, hysteria, fantasy) is one of the seductive forms of the Devil."  [can't decide about this one; obviously not politically correct, but tantalizing nonetheless].

 "The day the young writer corrects his first proof, he is as proud as a schoolboy with his first case of pox."

"A woman doesn't know how to separate her soul from her body.  She is simplistic, like animals--a satirist would say that this is because she has only a body."