In France the men all live in cafes, the children are all put out to nurse, and the women, saving the respect of mademoiselle -- well, the less said ….

I think love is serious. It's like an invention: sometimes it lies deep down inside you, great and quiet--and at other times it racks you and keeps y….

Every man's first declaration of love is bathos--the zenith of his passion connoting perhaps the nadir of his intelligence..

Any human love a man gets he can make fill his life. It's like the grain of mustard-seed..

Don't be a genius, my son, it isn't good for anybody..

Women are cats ... and love to scratch even those they're fond of. Sometimes the more they love them the harder they scratch..

Children are the root of all evil.... Happy the man who has his quiver empty..

The only cure for loss of illusions is fresh illusions, more illusions, and always illusions..

I believe half of the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things..

It all depends whether hope is in front or behind you..

Life is droll. It has no common sense. It is the game of a mountebank..

Our happiness is made up of the things we miss..

I hold in my hands the very soul of a man. What more dare a woman ask of the high gods?.

If you love a Dream Woman ... let her stay the divine Woman of the Dream. To awaken and clasp flesh and blood, no matter how delicately tender, and f….

Men are men and women are women. We've tried for tens of thousands of years to lay down hard and fast lines for the sexes to walk upon, and we've fai….

Beyond all the fires of love through which one passes there is the star of Duty, and happy the individual who can live in its serenity..

As I enter on the path of happiness, I scatter the dregs and shreds and clippings of the past behind me. I divest myself of all the crapulous years..

I can tell you how to get what you want: You've just got to keep a thing in view and go for it and never let your eyes wander to right or left or up ….

What is a logical mind?... It is the antiseptic which destroys the bacilli of unreason whereby true happiness is vivified..

To read of human depravity in the police reports is one thing, to see it fall like a black shadow across one's life is another..

Have you ever considered what anxious thought, what consummate knowledge of human nature, what dearly-bought experiences go into the making of an adv….