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

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

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.

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

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