Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.
Don't just count your years, make your years count.
Chance works for us when we are good captains.
Speech is the small change of silence.
Memoirs are the backstairs of history.
The well of true wit is truth itself.
A witty woman is a treasure a witty beauty is a power.
Kissing don't last: cookery do !
Caricature is rough truth.
We are betrayed by what is false within.
Published memoirs indicate the end of a man's activity and that he acknowledges the end.
The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.
Memoirs: the backstairs of history.
Ah what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!
Who rises from prayer a better man his prayer is answered.
Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.
The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.
There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.
Cynicism is intellectual dandyism without the coxcomb's feathers.
Prayer for worldly goods is worse than fruitless but prayer for strength of soul is that passion of the soul which catches the gift it seeks.