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

The habits of every animal are, at least in the eyes of man, constantly similar in all ages. But the habits, the clothes, the words and the dwelling of a prince, a banker, an artist, a bourgeois, a priest and a pauper, are wholly dissimilar and change at the will of civilizations.

A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.

Fools gain greater advantages through their weakness than intelligent men through their strength. We watch a great man struggling against fate and we do not lift a finger to help him. But we patronize a grocer who is headed for bankruptcy.

Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors.

Several sorts of memory exist in us; body and mind each possesses one peculiar to itself. Nostalgia, for instance, is a malady of the physical memory.

Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.