Men were just like sheep, and nothing was easier than for women to set up as shepherds and pen them up in a field.

This is a boy's lot: anything he does, anything whatever, may afterward turn out to have been a crime - he never knows. And punishment and clemency are alike inexplicable.

Youth cannot imagine romance apart from youth.

Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.

Men were just like sheep, and nothing was easier than for women to set up as shepherds and pen them up in a field.

Superciliousness is not safe after all, because a person who forms the habit of wearing it may some day find his lower lip grown permanently projected beyond the upper, so that he can't get it back, and must go through life looking like the King of Spain.

The understanding smile of an old wife to her husband is one of the loveliest things in the world.