. . .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.

If you are not feeling well, if you have not slept, chocolate will revive you. But you have no chocolate! I think of that again and again! My dear, how will you ever manage?

Not to find pleasure in serious reading gives a pastel coloring to the mind.

Racine will pass away like the taste for coffee.

The human heart will never wrinkle

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

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