One thing about tourists is that it is very easy to get away from them. Like ants they follow a trail and a few yards each side of that trail there are none.

Sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity.

Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry.

But I think she would have been happy with Fabrice,' I said. 'He was the great love of her life, you know.' Oh, dulling,' said my mother, sadly. 'One always thinks that. Every, every time.

Life is sometimes sad and often dull, but there are currants in the cake, and here is one of them.

Nothing makes people crosser than being considered too old for love.

One's emotions are intensified in Paris—one can be more happy and also more unhappy here than in any other place. But it is always a positive source of joy to live here, and there is nobody so miserable as a Parisian in exile from his town.