Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.

Since the days of Adam, there has been hardly a mischief done in this world but a woman has been at the bottom of it.

Sure, occasion is the father of most that is good in us.

To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don't want a rose to sing.

Who has not seen how women bully women? What tortures have men to endure compared to those daily repeated shafts of scorn and cruelty with which poor women are riddled by the tyrants of their sex?

No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.

Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.