I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind -...
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
I put forward formless and unresolved notions as do those who publish...
I speak the truth not so much as I would but as much as I dare and I dare a...
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content or of weariness....
For truly it is to be noted that children's plays are not sports and should...
Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the...
If you don't know how to die don't worry Nature will tell you what to do on...
Marriage a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and...
If you press me to say why I loved him I can say no more than because he was...
The value of life lies not in the length of days but in the use we make of...
Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their...
There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with...
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own...
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future because no one wants to face...
If there is such a thing as a good marriage it is because it resembles...
The thing I fear most is fear.
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in...
There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole...
If you think you can win you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
