Extreme concupiscence may be found under extreme austerity.

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

Adversity is solitary, while prosperity dwells in a crowd

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

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.

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

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.