Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

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

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

If the food supply runs out, try trapping or hunting animals. For most people, this won't be easy. If you can't catch any animals, it's time to throw a Donner party.

The sweetest fruits grow at the top of a tree so that only those who deserve them can reach them.

A unique human trait is that we try to find meaning in the things that happen to us.

The more aspects of life that can be moved from private reign to public realm, the better it is for politics.

I love what I do, and I intend to keep playing.

I have no patience with up-themselves authors who complain about having to trail round a few bookshops signing stock.

Again and again one can listen: this is my opinion, I think this or that... As if it matters, what one or the other thinks! The point is much more to what the truth is!

The language of truth is unvarnished enough.

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

He has a competent person, I think who will be confirmed as HHS secretary, Congressman Tom Price.