If you are considering marriage, ask yourself one question: Will I still enjoy talking with her when I'm old?

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

We are in the greatest danger of being run over when we have just gotten out of the way of a carriage.

He who does not desire much more from things than knowledge of them easily makes peace with his soul.

The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.

What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man!