To have one's mother-in-law in the country when one lives in Paris, and vice versa, is one of those strokes of luck that one encounters only too rarely.

Some troubles, like a protested note of a solvent debtor, bear interest.

Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects.

Vivacity is the health of the spirit.

Who shall ever tell how much an unmerited disfavor crushes a shy person? Who can ever depict the misfortunes of timidity?

Nothing is irredeemably ugly but sin.

Glory is a poison, good to be taken in small doses.