Suffering predisposes the mind to devoutness; and most young girls, prompted by instinctive tenderness, lean towards mysticism, the obscurer side of religion.

Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.

Society proceeds like the ocean. After a disaster, it resume its wonted level and rhythms; its devouring interests efface all traces of damage.

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

When passion is not fed, it changes to need. At this juncture, marriage becomes a fixed idea in the mind of the bourgeois, being the only means whereby he can win a woman and appropriate her to his uses.

Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.

Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the male bird.