There are good marriages, but there are no delightful ones.

Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully

Love of fame, fear of disgrace, schemes for advancement, desire to make life comfortable and pleasant, and the urge to humiliate others are often at the root of the valour men hold in such high esteem.

Women know not the whole of their coquetry.

There is great skill in knowing how to conceal one's skill.

How can we be answerable for what we shall want in the future, since we have no clear idea of what we want now?

Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind.