If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.
The more it changes, the more it's the same thing.
Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one.
A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked.
Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
Flowing water is at once a picture and a music, which causes to flow at the same time from my brain, like a limpid and murmuring rivulet, sweet thoughts, charming reveries, and melancholy remembrances.