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

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.

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

So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.

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

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.