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.

If certain women walk straight into adultery, there are many others who cling to numerous hopes, and commit sin only after wandering through a maze of sorrows.

Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.

God reveals Himself, unfailingly, to the solitary, thoughtful seeker

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

Poles offer a mobility like that of the wind that blows over the immense plains and marches of Poland. Show a Pole a precipice, and he will leap headlong over it.