Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.

Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.

The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct ratio to the swiftness of our passage.

But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more fragile but more enduring, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, remain poised a long time, like souls, remembering, waiting, hoping, amid the ruins of all the rest; and bear unflinchingly, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollection.

One reads the papers as one wants to with a bandage over one's eyes without trying to understand the facts, listening to the soothing words of the editor as to the words of one s mistress.