People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

What woman, however old, has not the bridal-favours and raiment stowed away, and packed in lavender, in the inmost cupboards of her heart?

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?

Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.

If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.

I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.