Those sciences which govern the morals of mankind, such as Theology and Philosophy, make everything their concern: no activity is so private or so secret as to escape their attention or their jurisdiction.

It is a small soul, buried beneath the weight of affairs, that does not know how to get clean away from them, that cannot put them aside and pick them up again.

He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.

The land of marriage has this peculiarity: that strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would willingly be banished from thence.

Natural inclinations are assisted and reinforced by education, but they are hardly ever altered or overcome.

A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.

I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.