Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn't matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material ... Don't wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.

There is no cruelty greater than a woman's to a man who loves her and whom she does not love; she has no kindness then, no tolerance even, she has only an insane irritation.

It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.

They say a woman always remembers her first lover with affection; but perhaps she does not always remember him.

We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.

You must not pursue a success, but fly from it.

Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.