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 He who can manage one woman can govern a nation. The converse is not always true. Women can "live upon air" — but not without it. Many conjugal apartments are rendered sad by ill-ventilation. A man may love several at the same time; a woman but "one at a time, and often." The man who assumes that a woman can love but once, is an egotist or a fool. Women are more faithful and less constant than men.

Jealousy in a man is an inconsistent passion; he is loved or he is not loved — in either case jealousy is useless.

When a woman takes suddenly to habits of devotion, she is almost always struggling with a new love or forgetting an old one — often both. The man who forces idleness upon his wife, exposes her to every temptation that can assail a woman.