An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.

The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people. It cannot be too often repeated that it is dangerous to enter upon a career of letters without some other means of living. An illustrious author has said in these times, "Literature must not be leant on as upon a crutch; it is little more than a stick.

It is more pitiable once to have been rich than not to be rich now.

We forget the origin of a parvenu if he remembers it; we remember it if he forgets it.

No woman dares express all she thinks.

People who declare that they belong to no party certainly do not belong to ours.

Nothing for preserving the body like having no heart.