On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream, to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath.

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.

If he's getting married, he's not longer interesting.

Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.

You don't think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.