To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.

We all have our little illusions about our own mental abilities.

All I have learned about horses is that they are beautiful overrated creatures and are all born quite insane.

The reason for the scaffolding on the tower of Saint Germain-des-Près is that a rich American has purchased it and is having it crated for shipping.

To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.