I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance; but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

It is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides!

Within six months, if I am not dead, I shall have seen you again, madam--even if I have to overturn the world.

Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.