With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is t….

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action..

A murderer is less loathsome to us than a spy. The murderer may have acted on a sudden mad impulse; he may be penitent and amend; but a spy is always….

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth..

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning..

Intuition, like the rays of the sun, acts only in an inflexibly straight line; it can guess right only on condition of never diverting its gaze; the ….

Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius. Only God is triangular!.

Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable..

What is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood?.

Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown..

One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others..

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies..

Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness..

The more you judge, the less you love..

An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities..

One hour of love has a whole life in it..

Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect..

All human power is a compound of time and patience..

Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop..

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye..

Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves..