The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated male is more likely to wind up in prison or in an asylum or dead than his mated counterpart. He is less likely to be promoted at work and he is considered a poor credit risk.

You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.

The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit another´s treachery.

Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.

It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.

Our memories are independent of our wills.

Women govern us; let us render them perfect: the more they are enlightened, so much the more shall we be. On the cultivation of the mind of women depends the wisdom of men. It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.