“You don't think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.”

“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”

“But what is the heart, madame? It's worth less than people think. it's quite accommodating, it accepts anything. You give it whatever you have, it's not very particular. But the body... Ha! That's something else again! It has a cultivated taste, as they say, it knows what it wants. A heart doesn't choose, and one always ends up by loving.”

“Don't cudgel your brains over my little problems.”

“The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.”

“In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.”

“look for a long time at what pleases you, and longer still at what pains you...”