A state of reverie does not avoid reality, it accedes to reality.

Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves.

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

Her tears were partly tears of happiness, for she felt that the strangeness between them was gone. She loved him now with a new love because he had made her suffer.

Tolerance is only another name for indifference.

The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.