As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectly satisfied - Oscar Wilde

The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.

Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result. All the results of the mistakes of governments are quite admirable.