Only the mediocre are always at their best.

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.

Agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage is true or false, the marriage portion is the same: elemental discord.

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.

The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death's deserters.

The secret of success is sincerity.

I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?