Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.... They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

I was wrong. God's law is only Love.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.

There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.

It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.