Among fifty percent of your married couples, the husband worries very little about what his wife is doing, provided she is doing all he wishes.

To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.

From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

In all lands, sailors form a race apart. They profess a congenital contempt for landlubbers. As for the tradesman, he understands nothing of sailors nor cares a fig about them. He is content to rob them if he can.

Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.