Talent is long patience.
Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
They took each other's advice, opened one book, went over to another, then did not know what to decide when opinions diverged so widely.
Coffee: Induces wit. Good only if it comes through Havre. After a big dinner party it is taken standing up. Take it without sugar - very swank: gives the impression you have lived in the East.