Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

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

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

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

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.

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

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

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success.

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

Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station.

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

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.