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.

I would rather be old for a shorter time than be old before my time.

The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.

Our religion is made to eradicate vices, instead it encourages them, covers them, and nurtures them.

We do not marry for ourselves, whatever we say; we marry just as much or more for our posterity, for our family. The practice and benefit of marriage concerns our race very far beyond us.

If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.