Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance

To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.

As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move…similes arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is your ally and writing ceases to be a struggle.

Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.'

A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.

Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her.

Let us leave the cure of public evils to those quacks, the statesmen.