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.

If there is a fruit that can be eaten raw, it is beauty.

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.

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.

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

Women's glances express what they dare not speak.

Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin.