The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing.
Men are not amusing during the shooting season; but, after all, my dear, men were not especially designed to amuse women.
stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.
Self-admiration giveth much consolation.
The French are a race of individuals. There is no type.
there is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.