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

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are

Genius is intensity

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

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence

There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire

The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact

And thus Bureaucracy, the giant power wielded by pygmies, came into the world