Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody's fine feelings may be offended.

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

Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.

At that comfortable tavern on Pontchartrain we had a bouillabaisse than which a better was never eaten at Marseilles; and not the least headache in the morning, I give you my word; on the contrary, you only wake with a sweet refreshing thirst for claret and water.

Fairy roses, fairy rings, turn out sometimes troublesome things.

When I say that I know women, I mean I know that I don't know them. Every single woman I ever knew is a puzzle to me, as, I have no doubt, she is to herself.

A woman's heart is just like a lithographer's stone; what is once written upon it cannot be rubbed out.