Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.

Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.

Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.

Men's hearts and faces are always wide asunder; women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror-like in the instant power of reflection.

Vivre est un maladie dont le sommeil nous soulage toutes les 16 heures. C'est un pallatif. La mort est le remede.

There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.

Narrow waists and narrow minds go together.