The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.

A good Havana is one of the best pleasures that I know.

There are few things so pleasant as a picnic eaten in perfect comfort.

I am afraid of people with too much charm. They devour you. In the end you are made a sacrifice to the exercise of their fascinating gift and their insincerity.

It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humour teaches tolerance, and the humorist, with a smile and perhaps a sigh, is more likely to shrug his shoulders than to condemn.

The first duty of a woman is to be pretty, the second is to be well-groomed, and the third is never to contradict.