And so when studying faces, we do indeed measure them, but as painters, not as surveyors.

Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have unusual distinction and are capable of every vice, but who make a display of none in public and about whom no one can affirm they have a single one. There is something supple and secret about them. Besides, their perversity gives spice to their most innocent occupations, such as taking a walk in the garden at night.

Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.

A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu.

My dear Madame, I just noticed that I forgot my cane at your house yesterday; please be good enough to give it to the bearer of this letter. P.S. Kindly pardon me for disturbing you; I just found my cane.