The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition.

The test of a man's or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

The sexes deceive themselves over one another: this happens because fundamentally they honour and love only themselves... Hence man wants woman to be peaceful-but woman, like a cat, is essentially not peaceful, however much she may have practised an appearance of peacefulness.

Six hours sleep for a man, seven for a woman and eight for a fool.

The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills.

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.