Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

Carelessness in dressing is moral suicide.

Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.

Old maids claw as cats do. They not only inflict wounds but experience pleasure in doing so. Nor will they fail to remind their victims of the blood drawn.

Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.

Like most young people, these two attributed to the world their own intelligence and virtues. Youth who knows no failure has no mercy on the faults of other people; but it has also a sublime faith in them.

During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo.