There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall

The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives

Hope costs nothing

Be happy. It's one way of being wise

How do you like them? like a pear, a lemon, a la Montgolfier, half an apple, or a cantaloupe? Go and choose, don't be embarrassed

For to dream and then to return to reality only means that our qualms suffer a change of place and significance

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm

Real poverty is lack of books

A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude

There are no ordinary cats