Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!'.

Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?

As we grow older we think more and more of old persons and of old things and places. As to old persons, it seems as if we never know how much they have to tell until we are old ourselves and they have been gone twenty or thirty years. Once in a while we come upon some survivor of his or her generation that we have overlooked, and feel as if we had recovered one of the lost books of Livy or fished up the golden candlestick from the ooze of the Tiber.

Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.

A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.