Sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity.
Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars.
If one can't be happy, one must be amused.
Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry.
There are worse things than poverty, though I can't for the moment remember what they are.
One's emotions are intensified in Parisโone 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.