Truffles must come to the table in their own stock and as you break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil, imagine - if you have never visited it - the desolate kingdom where it rules.

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.

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.

Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.

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

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.