Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!

If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life

In a husband there is only a man; in a married woman there is a man, a father, and mother, and a woman

Finance, like time, devours its own children.

The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.

Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.