It is better not to be different from one's fellows. The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world.

Women spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.

The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.

Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art.

The only people to whose opinions I listen now with any respect are people much younger than myself. They seem in front of me. Life has revealed to them her latest wonder.

To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations.

A flower blossoms for its own joy.