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

A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men...

There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.

The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.

Among all the modernized aspects of the most luxurious of industries, the model, a vestige of voluptuous barbarianism, is like some plunder-laden prey. She is the object of unbridled regard, a living bait, the passive realization of an ideal. No other female occupation contains such potent impulses to moral disintegration as this one, applying as it does the outward signs of riches to a poor and beautiful girl.

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.

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