When in Turkey, do as the turkeys do.

Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit.

Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion.

The day will dawn when Europe will believe only in the man who tramples her underfoot.

With monuments as with men, position means everything.

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.

What saves the virtue of many a woman is that protecting god, the impossible.