If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
viewA woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
viewLove is the poetry of the senses.
viewThe fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
viewNo man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
viewOne should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
viewThe majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
viewEquality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
viewI do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
viewLaws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
viewA mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
viewA mother who is really a mother is never free.
viewA young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.
viewThe most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.
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