Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow one another like the withered leaves of Autumn; but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons and a possession for all eternity.

Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .

I believe it is customary in good society to take some slight refreshment at five o'clock.

Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.

The worst slave owners were those who were kind to their slaves

To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.

At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been.