Delicacy is to love what grace is to beauty.

Pleasure and pain, the good and the bad, are so intermixed that we can not shun the one without depriving ourselves of the other.

Contempt is the only way to triumph over calumny.

Hope says to us constantly, "Go on, go on..."

Woman softens her own troubles by generously solacing those of others.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

It is with many enterprises as with striking fire; we do not meet with success except by reiterated efforts, and often at the instant when we despaired of success.