three-fourths of all marriages are unhappy.

It is with many enterprises as with striking fire; we do not meet with success except by reiterated efforts, and often at the instant when we despaired of success.

Woman softens her own troubles by generously solacing those of others.

Hope says to us constantly, "Go on, go on..."

Pleasure and pain, the good and the bad, are so intermixed that we can not shun the one without depriving ourselves of the other.

The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.

Contempt is the only way to triumph over calumny.