A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.

A year at the breast is quite enough; children who are suckled longer are said to grow stupid, and I am all for popular sayings.

Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact.

The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.

The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.

Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man