There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.

Flattery is like wine, which exhilarates a man for a moment, but usually ends by going to his head and making him act foolishly.

In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Fortunately for women, most men mistake loneliness for love before marriage, and habit for happiness afterward.

A woman flees from temptation, but a man just crawls away from it in the cheerful hope that it may overtake him.

Eternity: The interval between the time when a woman discovers that a man is in love with her and the time when he finds it out himself and tells her about it.