“It is as easy to find a lover as to keep a friend, but as hard to find a friend as to keep a lover.”

“Beauty always wins friends.”

“Can one man's madness be another's real life?”

“I have marked in traveling how lonely houses change their expression as you come near, pass, and leave them. Some frown, others smile. The Bible buildings had life of their own and human diseases; the priests cursed or blessed them as men.”

“Houses seem to remember,' said he. 'Some rooms oppress us with a sense of lives that have been lived in them.”

“Love I must forego. I am not a man with an income.”

“They stamped their own pattern of lovers onto the fabric of Paris.”