To protect ourselves against the storms of passion, marriage with a woman is a harbor in the tempest; but with a bad woman it is a tempest in the harbor.
Public opinion is a courtesan, whom we seek to please without respecting.
That experience which does not make us better makes us worse.
How many wells of science there are in whose depths there is nothing but clear water!
It is easy to be virtuous in prospective.
An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.