Countries are like fruit-the worms are always inside.

In war-time a man is called a hero. It doesn't make him any braver, and he runs for his life. But at least it's a hero who is running away.

A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire.

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

A woman is a creature who has discovered her own nature.

Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.

There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people.