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.

Time, which strengthens friendship, weakens love.

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

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.

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

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

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

A devout man is he who would be an atheist if the king were.

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