All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept.

A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.

Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!

We must certainly acknowledge that solitude is a fine thing; but it is a pleasure to have some one who can answer, and to whom we can say, from time to time, that solitude is a fine thing.

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

In a husband, there is only a man; in a married woman, there is a man, a father, a mother and a woman.

I am a galley slave to pen and ink.