Ugly women may be naturally quite as capricious as pretty ones; but as they are never petted and spoiled, and as no allowances are made for them, they soon find themselves obliged either to suppress their whims or to hide them.

When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world; for there are always some whom one can love.

Sometimes one day in a difference place gives you more than ten years of a life at home.

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

You think you are dying for your country; you die for the industrialists.