Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company. The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.
Literature always anticipates life.
It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteenth century, as we know it, is largely an invention of Balzac. If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again it is because he adored his first wife.