Man is many things, but he is not rational.
The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.
The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.
Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman
Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.