Someday there is going to be a book about a middle-aged man with a good job, a beautiful wife and two lovely children who still manages to be happy.

It may be that these loan arrangements conform to the letter of the law, but they do not conform to the spirit of the law and to the principle of transparency on which it is based.

Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.

The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.

When a woman talks, she just wants to be heard.

My forces are not enfeebled, I find no decay in my strength; my provisions are not cut off, I find no abhorring in mine appetite; my counsels are not corrupted nor infatuated, I find no false apprehensions to work upon mine understanding; and yet they see that invisibly, and I feel that insensibly, the disease prevails.

What is a highway to one is a disaster to the other.