Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit.

In the silence of their studios, busied for days at a time with works which leave the mind relatively free, painters become like women; their thoughts can revolve around the minor facts of life and penetrate their hidden meaning.

We do not wish success yet we obtain it. Always we find what we are not looking for. These words are too true not to become a proverb some day.

Passion is born deaf and dumb.

No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.

To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

In Paris every man must have had a love affair. What woman wants something that no other woman ever wanted.