almost all novels are love stories.

You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions: you are the strongest, and society adds to your power; but with my will, sir, you can do nothing.

Learned women are ridiculed because they put to shame unlearned men.

The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world

Nowadays it seems that moral education is no longer considered necessary. Attention is wholly centered on intelligence, while the heart life is ignored.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

No human being can control love, and no one is to blame either for feeling it or for losing it. What alone degrades a woman is falsehood.