Self-interest is an ineffable feeling which shall follow us into God's very presence since they say there is a hierarchy even among the Holy Saints.

He who best knows the world will love it least.

Nothing can afford a woman greater pleasure than to hear tender words of love. The strictest, most devout woman will listen even if she must not answer.

An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities.

Let us leave the cure of public evils to those quacks, the statesmen.

The key to all sciences is unquestionably the question mark. To the word How? we owe most of our greatest discoveries. Wisdom in life may perhaps consist in asking ourselves on all occasions: Why?

Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.