The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.

A good book is an event in my life.

If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.

The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You're supposed to seem bored.

The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.