Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.

An agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage is true or false, the marriage portion is the same: elemental discord.

There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon.

Who would prefer peace to the glory of hunger and thirst, of wading through mud, and dying in the service of one's country?

Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?

Everyone always dies for his country. If you have lived in it, well and wisely and actively, you die for it too.

The stage play is a trial, not a deed of violence. The soul is opened, like the combination of a safe, by means of a word. You don't require an acetylene torch.