No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

All we are is in the soul.

Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.

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

Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius. Only God is triangular!

The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to discover its real worth.