Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly

Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

Irony is wasted on the stupid

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.

It is always painful fo part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.

I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.