January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

- and how time flies! What, has it already been twenty years, already forty years that we are together? Why, how terrible! We haven't yet said all we wanted to say to each other... May we have a little respite, or else may we be allowed to begin all over again!

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

By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet.

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