Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them.

God defend me from myself.

A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.

Reason has so many forms that we do not know which to choose-Experiment has no fewer.

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

We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others.

It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.