But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.

Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.

Spring appears and we are once more children.

Women prefer emotions to reasoning.

Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.

I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.