My friend is not allowed to go out today. I sit by his side and read him passages from his own life. They fill him with surprise. Everyone should keep someone else's diary; I sometimes suspect you of keeping mine.

The only way to atone for being occasionally overdressed is to be massively overeducated.

Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne.

You told me you had destroyed it." "I was wrong. It has destroyed me.

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

Every woman is wrong until she cries.

As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.