It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

There are no ordinary cats.

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

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.

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.

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