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

Necessity is the spur of genius.

And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

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.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself, will always be the text of the life of woman.

The weakest being on earth can accomplish feats of strength. The frailest urchin will ring every doorbell on the street in arctic weather or hoist himself aloft to inscribe his name on a virgin monument.