The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

The lessons of experience are always learned too late.

Gossiping is the plague of little towns.

Learned women are ridiculed because they put to shame unlearned men.

Where there is no longer love, there is no longer anything.

Age continually alters the faces of those who think or study, and so their portraits differ from one another and don't even resemble them for very long. I dream so much and live so little that I'm sometimes only three years old. But the next day I'm three hundred, if the dream has been sombre.

Death must no longer be either the penalty for prosperity or the consolation of misery. God did not destine it to be either the punishment or the compensation for life.