He does not neglect the plain physical facts, about which it is so difficult in an age of morbid reserve to speak with freedom, yet about which it is fatal to be silent.

He indulged in none of those mischievous flatteries of women, which satisfy narrow observers, or coxcombs, or the uxorious.

"Never forget," he said, "that for lack of reflection and principles, nothing penetrates down to a certain profoundness of conviction in the understanding of women.

The ideas of justice, virtue, vice, goodness, badness, float on the surface of their souls.

They have preserved self-love and personal interest with all the energy of nature.