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

No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.

A grass blade believes that men build palaces for it to grow in. Grass wedges its way between the closest blocks of marble and it brings them down. This power of feeble life which can creep in anywhere is greater than that of the mighty behind their cannons.

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

Life is simply what out feelings do to us.

Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence.

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.