There are few husbands whom the wife cannot win in the long run, by patience and love.

We shall all be perfectly virtuous when there is no longer any flesh on our bones.

Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God.

envy and hatred fascinate the eyes and never make them see things as they are.

Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.

Excitement is the drunkenness of the spirits. Only calm waters reflect heaven in their bosom.

Bashfulness is not becoming to maidenhood, though modesty always is.