Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.
Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.
What a thing of fantasy a woman may become after dusk.
Are not our noblest feelings as it were the poems of our will.
Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her.