If two people who love each other let a single instant wedge itself between them, it grows-it becomes a month, a year, a century; it becomes to late.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

Since I love you, my loneliness begins to throw you.

Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.

There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon.

To make ourselves invisible to creditors or to the envious, and even to our own worries, we can take advantage here on earth of a great democratic institution-in fact, democracy's only success-the night.

Everyone always dies for his country. If you have lived in it, well and wisely and actively, you die for it too.