But what is the heart, madame? It's worth less than people think. it's quite accommodating, it accepts anything. You give it whatever you have, it's not very particular. But the body... Ha! That's something else again! It has a cultivated taste, as they say, it knows what it wants. A heart doesn't choose, and one always ends up by loving.

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

Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.

In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.

I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.

Time spent with a cat is never wasted.

The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.