Nothing is unimportant to a man plunged in despair. He is as credulous as a criminal sentenced to death who listens to a lunatic raving to him about how he can escape through the keyhole.

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

A husband can commit no greater blunder than to discuss his wife, if she is virtuous, with his mistress; unless it be to mention his mistress, if she is beautiful, to his wife.

Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.

He who best knows the world will love it least.

Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.