To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all.

Life without laughing is a dreary blank.

There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.

To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don't want a rose to sing.

Oh, those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts.

One tires of a page of which every sentence sparkles with points, of a sentimentalist who is always pumping the tears from his eyes or your own.

As an occupation in declining years, I declare I think saving is useful, amusing and not unbecoming. It must be a perpetual amusement. It is a game that can be played by day, by night, at home and abroad, and at which you must win in the long run. . . . What an interest it imparts to life!.