The privilege of feeling at home everywhere belongs only to kings, wolves and robbers.
Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.
To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.
And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.