Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.

Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

For a sick man the world begins at his pillow and ends at the foot of his bed.

A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.

Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God.