If women only knew the extent of their power!

Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.

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.

One expresses well only the love he does not feel.

A woman who writes commits two sins; she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women.

Dress is the great business of all women, and the fixed idea of some.

The more it changes, the more it's the same thing.