The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.
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.
Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
A girl fresh from a boarding school may perhaps be a virgin but no! she is never chaste.
Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.
Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.