Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.

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

I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.

The concern that some women show at the absence of their husbands, does not arise from their not seeing them and being with them, but from their apprehension that their husbands are enjoying pleasures in which they do not participate, and which, from their being at a distance, they have not the power of interrupting.

The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the pyramids of Egypt-both with the common motion and with their own.

Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.

Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand.