But the English do not know what surprise is. No one ever turns his head to look at anyone else in the street.

The true defense against wealth is not a fear of wealth - of its fragility and of the vicious consequences that it can bring - the true defense against wealth is an indifference to money.

You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials

As soon as we see our dreams betrayed we realize that the intensest joys of our life have nothing to do with reality, and we are consumed with regret for the time when they glowed within us. And in this succession of hopes and regrets our life slips by.

And we are a people without tears. The things that moved our parents do not move us at all.

No adultery is bloodless.

My tidiness, and my untidiness, are full of regret and remorse and complex feelings.