The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

To recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.

When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.