Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.

Modesty in women has two special advantages,--it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.

Nature intends that, at fixed periods, men should succeed each other by the instrumentality of death. We shall never outwit Nature; we shall die as usual.

Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.

We must always skim over pleasures. They are like marshy lands that we must travel nimbly, hardly daring to put down our feet.

Women react differently: a French woman who sees herself betrayed by her husband will kill his mistress; an Italian will kill her husband; a Spaniard will kill both; and a German will kill herself.

A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.