Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Dress is the great business of all women, and the fixed idea of some.
We can invent only with memory.
A woman who writes commits two sins; she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women.