A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne.
It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one.
One exits with one's husband -- one lives with one's lover.
One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others.
Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.
The innocence of virgins is like milk which turns when exposed to a clap of thunder, to a tart smell, to a hot day, to the merest nothing.