We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles.

It's a question of prudence. Nobody has a high opinion of fishwives but who would dare offend them while walking through the fish market.

She commands who is blest with indifference.

The majority of the books of our time give one the impression of having been manufactured in a day out of books read the day before.

Marriage, as practised by high society, is arranged indecency.

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

There is as much expression in the feet as in the hands.