The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.

We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.

Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects.

Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such are the theologic virtues of marriage.

Six weeks with a fever is an eternity.