Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken.
Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.
Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.
Many are those who can argue; few are those who can converse
Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.
When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence.