I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Love prefers twilight to daylight.