From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.

A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be.

I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy.

I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.

Women love those best (whether men, women, or children) who give them most pain.

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.

Calamity is the test of integrity.