Piety with some people, but especially with women, is either a passion, or an infirmity of age, or a fashion which must be followed.

Party loyalty lowers the greatest men to the petty level of the masses.

There are some extraordinary fathers, who seenl, during the whole course of their lives, to be giving their children reasons for being consoled at their death.

It is often easier as well as more advantageous to conform to other men’s opinions than to bring them over to ours.

There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and wilfully go wrong for fear of being controlled.

Women become attached to men by the favors they grant them; men are cured by these same favors.

Men are the reason that women do not love one another.

There are few wives so perfect as not to give their husbands at least once a day good reason to repent of ever having married, or at least of envying those who are unmarried.

Time, which strengthens friendship, weakens love.

There are but three events which concern men: birth, life, and death. They are unconscious of their birth, they suffer when they die, and they neglect to live.