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

Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins.

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.

Narrow waists and narrow minds go together.

In order to forgive reason for the evil it has wrought on the majority of men, we must imagine for ourselves what man would be without his reason. 'Tis a necessary evil.

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.