Youth is rather to be pitied than envied by people in years since it is doomed to toil through the rugged road of life which the others have passed through, in search of happiness that is not to be met with in it and that, at the highest, can be compounded for only by the blessing of a contented mind.

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

Whom we fear more than love, we are not far from hating.

The life of a good man was a continual warfare with his passions.

The eye is the casement at which the heart generally looks out. Many a woman who will not show herself at the door, has tipt the sly, the intelligible wink from the window.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.