I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.

Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.

The happier a man, the more apt he is to tremble. In hearts exclusively tender, anxiety and jealousy are in exact proportion to happiness.

In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.

No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea.

When in Turkey, do as the turkeys do.

Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint when we are placed in a false position.