We cannot do better than to accept the standards of other times, and to adapt them to our uses.
Eating outdoors makes for good health and long life and good temper, everyone knows that.
Light, air and comfort - these three things I must always have in a room.
No, I don't take soup. You can't build a meal on a lake.
the smallest part is worthy of the whole.
a woman of the world should always be the mistress of sorrow and not its servant. She may have a grief but never a grievance.