God sends the cold according to the coat.
As soon as women become ours we are no longer theirs.
I want to be seen here in my simple, natural, ordinary fashion, without straining or artifice; for it is myself that I portray... I am myself the matter of my book.
It is much more easy to accuse the one sex than to excuse the other.
It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.
I speak to the paper, as I speak to the first person I meet.