We must always skim over pleasures. They are like marshy lands that we must travel nimbly, hardly daring to put down our feet.

There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.

Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.

Women react differently: a French woman who sees herself betrayed by her husband will kill his mistress; an Italian will kill her husband; a Spaniard will kill both; and a German will kill herself.

I detest war; it ruins conversation

A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of geometry.

Modesty in women has two special advantages,--it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.