But woman brings disorder into society through passion.

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Misfortune is a stepping stone for a genius, a piscina for a Christian, a treasure for a man of parts, and an abyss for a weakling.

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

No frozen-hearted woman ever I laid eyes on but has made duty her religion.

If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man's life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool's notion of history.

An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities.