God has put into the heart of man love and the boldness to sue, and into the heart of woman fear and the courage to refuse.

Excitement is the drunkenness of the spirits. Only calm waters reflect heaven in their bosom.

We shall all be perfectly virtuous when there is no longer any flesh on our bones.

Bashfulness is not becoming to maidenhood, though modesty always is.

It is only the educated who can produce or appreciate high art.

Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.

It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.