Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders.

Narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or beneficially over others.

Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.

There are words which cut like steel.

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.

A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.