We should lay in a store of food, but never of pleasures; these should be gathered day by day.

A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told.

Old age is a woman's hell.

Hatred is nearly always honest--rarely, if ever, assumed. So much cannot be said for love.

When our desires are fulfilled, we never fail to realize the wealth of imagination and the paucity of reality.

Equality is the share of every one at their advent upon earth, and equality is also theirs when placed beneath it.

The mind has great advantages over the body; however the body often furnishes little treats ... which offer the mind relief from sad thoughts.