One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.

Wit needs leisure, and certain inequalities of position