Thought is the only treasure that God sets outside all power and keeps to serve as a secret link among the unhappy.

Little minds find satisfaction for their feelings, good or bad, in little things.

When she lives at his palace, the maiden niece of a bishop can pass for a respectable woman because, if she has a love affair, she is obliged to hoodwink her uncle.

The more you judge, the less you love.

Nothing can afford a woman greater pleasure than to hear tender words of love. The strictest, most devout woman will listen even if she must not answer.

Nothing is unimportant to a man plunged in despair. He is as credulous as a criminal sentenced to death who listens to a lunatic raving to him about how he can escape through the keyhole.

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.