All of us have life; few of us have an idea of it.

A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.

Association with women is the basis of good manners.

One needs only to get old to become milder; I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.

Faith is a homely, private capital; as there are public savings-banks and poor funds, out of which in times of want we can relieve the necessities of individuals, so here the faithful take their coin in peace.

What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable.

Action has magic, grace and power in it.