You've no idea how long life goes on and how many, many changes it brings. Young people seem to imagine that it's over in a flash, that they do this thing, or that thing, and then die, but I can assure you they are quite wrong.

In France that is the one rule, never make trouble.

Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars.

There are worse things than poverty, though I can't for the moment remember what they are.

Sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity.

Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.