Dress is the great business of all women, and the fixed idea of some.

Let us try to see things from their better side: You complain about seeing thorny rose bushes; Me, I rejoice and give thanks to the gods That thorns have roses.

All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked.

If there is a fruit that can be eaten raw, it is beauty.

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers.