First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep, downward slope of hatred.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

Mud, raised by hurricanes, wells up in the noblest and purest of hearts.

There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.

A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.