We must always live in hope; without that consolation there would be no living.

There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.

I do not like to employ secretaries that have more wit than myself. I am afraid to make them write all my nonsense.

There is nothing so lovely as to be beautiful. Beauty is a gift of God and we should cherish it as such.

Were it not for the amusement of our books, we should be moped to death for want of occupation. It rains incessantly. ... we tickle ourselves in order to laugh; to so low an ebb are we reduced.

I love you so passionately, that I hide a great part of my love, so as not to oppress you with it.

. . .the most astonishing, the most surprising, the most marvelous, the most miraculous. . . the greatest, the least, the rarest, the most common, the most public, the most private till today. . . I cannot bring myself to tell you: guess what it is.