It costs more to satisfy a vice than to feed a family.
A husband should never permit himself to say anything against his wife in the presence of a third person.
Love prefers contrasts to similitudes.
The sentiment of wrong doing is in proportion to the purity of the conscience, and an act which to one is barely a fault will assume to another the dimensions of a crime.
Woman lives by sentiment, where man lives by action.
Probity, like virtue, should be divided into two classes: to wit, negative and positive. The former would refer to those who are honest so long as no occasion to enrich themselves is offered; while the latter would refer to those who face temptation and resist it.
Woman, as a rule, feels, enjoys, and judges successively; hence, three distinct periods, of which the last coincides with the melancholy approach of old age.
A lover is never in the wrong.
Distrust a woman who speaks of her virtue.
In love, there is nothing so persuasive as courageous stupidity.