Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.

Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.

A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.

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?

There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.

One admirable trait in women is their lack of illusions about themselves. They never reason about their most blameworthy actions; their feelings carry them away. Even their dissimulation comes naturally to them, and in them crime is free of all baseness. Most of the time they simply do not know how it happened.

Only when one has learned to acknowledge that wiser minds have made better words to come out of our mouths may we truly, then, begin to speak them.