People more easily tolerate opposition than a contradiction
The poor never estimate as a virtue the generosity of the rich.
You can sink so fast that you think you are flying.
Never expect women to be sincere, so long as they are educated to think that their first aim in life is to please.
There are women who love their husbands as blindly, as enthusiastically, and as enigmatically as nuns their cloister.
Our greatest indulgence towards a man springs from our despair of him.