Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.

The extraordinary ability of a woman to forget is not the same as the talent of a lady not to be able to remember.

It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.

Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.

Nowadays the thief cannot be distinguished from his victim. Neither has any valuable objects on him.

Satire chooses and knows no objects. It arises by fleeing from them and their forcing themselves upon it.