Those who have made unhappy marriages walk on stilts, while the happy ones are on a level with the crowd. No one sees 'em!.

All forced virtue is degrading in it effect..

Men are all the same. They always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got..

People get to like a soul, but a satisfactory hat makes an impression at first sight..

Men astonish themselves far more than they astonish their friends..

In life there are no Unities, but three Incomprehensibles: Destiny, Man, and Woman..

I have always found that each step we take in life is to be regretted - if we once begin to wonder how many other steps might have been possible..

There never was a woman so ill-suited to public life as I am. I have had to whip myself, as it were, into society, and the loneliness of it all has b….

If the gods have no sense of humor they must weep a great deal..

love comes to man through his senses - to woman through her imagination..

There is no misery quite so wearing as the misery of a false position. It seems to slay the body and the soul..

All is vanity, and discovering it - the greatest vanity..

Why should we refuse the happiness this hour gives us, because some other hour might take it away?.

Talking to you is only thinking to myself - made easier..

Disillusions all come from within ... from the failure of some dear and secret hope. The world makes no promises; we only dream it does; and when we ….

Conscience is the name which the orthodox give to their prejudices..

A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly to his enemies..

A quart of doubt to an ounce of truth is the safest brew..

Faults! I adore faults! I can never find too many in any creature..

An artist is a person who thinks more than there is to think, feels more than there is to feel, and sees more than there is to see..

Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny..