“Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.”

“Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.”

“The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.”

“The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.”

“Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.”

“It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion it is a joy of every moment. ”

“To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.”

“The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.”

“If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.”

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

“The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.”