There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.

We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.

The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.

Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.

Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.

But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.

Another occupation might have been better.