We don't go to school to learn, but to be soaked in the prejudices of our class, without which we should be useless and unhappy. - André Maurois

Old age diminishes our strength; it takes away our pleasures one after the other; it withers the soul as well as the body; it renders adventure and friendship difficult; and finally it is shadowed by thoughts of death.

Marriage makes a man more vulnerable by doubling the expanse of sail exposed to the tempests of social life.

No one judges the mistakes of love - so long as they are accompanied by sincere repentance - no one judges them with more understanding than a woman at once irreproachable and sensitive.