Most geometricians, chemists, mathematicians, and great scientists submit religion to reason only to discover a problem as unsolvable as that of squaring a circle.
Let us leave the cure of public evils to those quacks, the statesmen.
Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.
Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
To have one's mother-in-law in the country when one lives in Paris, and vice versa, is one of those strokes of luck that one encounters only too rarely.