Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners.

The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.

The national budget is not a safe-deposit box. It is a spray can.

To have one's mother-in-law in the country when one lives in Paris, and vice versa, is one of those strokes of luck that one encounters only too rarely.

Fools gain greater advantages through their weakness than intelligent men through their strength. We watch a great man struggling against fate and we do not lift a finger to help him. But we patronize a grocer who is headed for bankruptcy.

No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.

Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.