A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.

Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men.

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.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.

He was always thinking of his brother's soul, or of the souls of those who differed with him in opinion: it is a sort of comfort which many of the serious give themselves.

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