In adding up her assets, the ambitious lady calculated the worth of her beautiful body as coldly as everything else.

Adversity can strengthen us if it does not go on too long.

My ambition in life: to become successful enough to resume my career as a neurasthenic.

I create my social existence by earning and spending.

Comedy defends the commonplace; tragedy explodes it.

To avoid tripping on the chain of the past, you have to pick it up and wind it about you.

I am interested in a hundred things, but only slightly.