It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing

He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.

Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207

To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.

Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness.

Bad manners make a journalist.

Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.