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.

God has put into the heart of man love and the boldness to sue, and into the heart of woman fear and the courage to refuse.

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

Servitude is inherent; we are all slaves to duty or to force.

There are women so hard to please that it would seem as if nothing less than an angel would suit them; and hence it comes that they often encounter devils.

Prudence advises us to use our enemies as if one day they might be friends.

There is no greater fool than the man who thinks himself wise; no one is wiser than he who suspects he is a fool.