The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does.

Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.

A husband and wife who are in the habit of occupying separate rooms are either beings apart, or they have found happiness. Either they hate or they adore each other.

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon de-cency.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Men who pay their tailors never amount to anything, they never even become Cabinet ministers.