A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

One exits with one's husband -- one lives with one's lover.

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

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.

Parent may hinder their children's marriage; but children cannot interfere with the insane acts of their parents in their second childhood.