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.

The affection of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack's beanstalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night.

Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.

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!.

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

We have only to change the point of view and the greatest action looks mean.

Love makes fools of us all, big and little.