Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.

Almost every one flatters himself that he and his are exceptionable.

All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers.

We can invent only with memory.

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.

A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked.