In France we can cauterize wounds but we do not yet know any remedy for the injuries inflicted by a bon mot.

Alas, two men are often necessary to provide a woman with a perfect lover, just as in literature a writer composes a type only by employing the singularities of several similar characters.

From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.

In a world of hunchbacks, a fine figure becomes a monstrosity.

Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.

Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.

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