Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.

Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.

The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics.

Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.

Paris, like every pretty woman, is subject to inexplicable whims of beauty and ugliness.

The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger.

Several sorts of memory exist in us; body and mind each possesses one peculiar to itself. Nostalgia, for instance, is a malady of the physical memory.