Men as a rule love with their eyes, woman with their ears.

Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or transform our sins into elements of a new civilization, more marvelous and more splendid than any that has gone before.

Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.

When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.