Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.

Somewhere in the shadow cast by every famous man is a feminine victim.

How many people have wanted to kill themselves, and have been content with tearing up their photograph!

When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.

The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.

The profession of letters is, after all, the only one in which one can make no money without being ridiculous.