While seeking out the dead, I see nothing but the living.

Marriage is a fight to the death. Before contracting it, the two parties concerned implore the benediction of Heaven because to promise to love each other forever is the rashest of enterprises.

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.

Ah! how much a mother learns from her child! The constant protection of a helpless being forces us to so strict an alliance with virtue, that a woman never shows to full advantage except as a mother. Then alone can her character expand in the fulfillment of all life's duties and the enjoyment of all its pleasures.

A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.