... books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive.
No matter how hard a man may labor, some woman is always in the background of his mind. She is the one reward of virtue.
No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class.
... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.
stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.
Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth.