You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.

Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you.

The one charm of the past is that it is the past.

Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.

The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there.

It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces .