To be a woman condemned to a wretched and disgraceful punishment is no impediment to beauty, but it is an insurmountable obstacle to power. Like all persons of real genius, her ladyship well knew what accorded with her nature and her means. Poverty disgusted her -subjection deprived her of two-thirds of her greatness. Her ladyship was only a queen amongst queens: the enjoyment of satisfied pride was essential to her sway. To command beings of an inferior nature, was, to her, rather a humiliation than a pleasure.

Misfortune does not help us to believe.

Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.

The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground...they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us.

...joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.

Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.