Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.
People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.
A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent.
A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is, so to speak, only man's appendage; consequently, slice, cut, clip her, you have all rights to her.