I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

to be reasonable one should never complain but when one hopes redress.

As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it.

The one thing that reconciles me to the fact of being a woman is the reflection that it delivers me from the necessity of being married to one.

It is 11 years since I have seen my figure in a glass [mirror]. The last reflection I saw there was so disagreeable I resolved to spare myself such mortification in the future.

A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.

And we meet, with champagne and a chicken, at last.