A husband can commit no greater blunder than to discuss his wife, if she is virtuous, with his mistress; unless it be to mention his mistress, if she is beautiful, to his wife.

To speak of love is to make love.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.

There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.

Our most natural feelings are those we are loath to confess, and fatuity is among them.

In love, what a woman mistakes for disgust is actually clearsightedness. If she does not admire a man, she scorns him.