With monuments as with men, position means everything.

Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.

In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.

No frozen-hearted woman ever I laid eyes on but has made duty her religion.

Temperament is the thermometer of character.