Elegance is exquisite polish.

Women do not often have it in their power to give like men, but they forgive like Heaven.

Dignity and love do not blend.

The revolting details of childbirth had been hidden from me with such care that I was as surprised as I was horrified, and I cannot help thinking that the vows most women are made to take are very foolhardy. I doubt whether they would willingly go to the altar to swear that they will allow themselves to be broken on the wheel every nine months.

Too many wish to be happy before becoming wise.

In looking around me seeking for miserable resources against the heaviness of time, I open a book and I say to myself, as the cat to the fox: I have only one good turn, but I need no other.

Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception.