Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.

To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.

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

When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.

Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.