Nothing is so discreet as a young face, for nothing is less mobile; it has the serenity, the surface smoothness, and the freshnessof a lake. There is no character in women's faces before the age of thirty.

The national budget is not a safe-deposit box. It is a spray can.

The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done.

Nothing is so discreet as a young face, for nothing is less mobile; it has the serenity, the surface smoothness, and the freshnessof a lake. There is no character in women's faces before the age of thirty.

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.

Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.

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