The monotony of provincial life attracts the attention of people to the kitchen. You do not dine as luxuriously in the provinces as in Paris, but you dine better, because the dishes serve you are the result of mediation and study.

I am a galley slave to pen and ink.

To speak of love is to make love.

What a thing of fantasy a woman may become after dusk.

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.

Reading brings us unknown friends

Among fifty percent of your married couples, the husband worries very little about what his wife is doing, provided she is doing all he wishes.