But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.

My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life.

Always present yourself as a woman who expects to succeed.

Life was life. It happened. You never knew what was going to come at you. Or how you could defend yourself.

In my opinion, moderation is a vastly overrated virtue, particularly when applied to work

Life always gets harder towards the summit - the cold increases, responsibility increases.

A person with taste is merely one who can recognize the greatest beauty in the simplest things.

Even the most powerful woman needs a place to unwind.

Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks.

You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.

If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.

If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.

Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.

The defective can be more than the entire.

Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.