Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.