An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

Great men have always had dogs.

When you talk yourself, you think how witty, how original, how acute you are; but when another does so, you are very apt to think only - What a crib from Rochefoucauld!

What is failure except feebleness? And what is it to miss one's mark except to aim widely and weakly?

Flowers belong to Fairyland: the flowers and the birds and the butterflies are all that the world has kept of its golden age--the only perfectly beautiful things on earth--joyous, innocent, half divine--useless, say they who are wiser than God.

There is no applause that so flatters a man as that which he wrings from unwilling throats.

Count art by gold, and it fetters the feet it once winged.