“Whatever people may say the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis the former know how to act the latter become uncouth brutes.”

“If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight—they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.”

“The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.”

“The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.”

“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.”

“Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.”

“The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.”

“Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.”

“No woman marries for money they are all clever enough before marrying a millionaire to fall in love with him first.”

“The only joy in the world is to begin.”

“We do not remember days we remember moments.”