It is hard living down the tempers we are born with. We all begin well, for in our youth there is nothing we are more intolerant of than our own sins writ large in others and we fight them fiercely in ourselves; but we grow old and we see that these our sins are of all sins the really harmless ones to own, nay that they give a charm to any character, and so our struggle with them dies away.

I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.

Cooking like everything else in France is logic and fashion.

History takes time. History makes memory.

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.

Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.