After all, a beautiful woman without a mind of her own leaves her lover with no resource after he had physically enjoyed her charms.

Those who do not love life do not deserve it.

If you want to make people laugh, your face must remain serious.

Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved.

I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence.

Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.

Cultivating whatever gave pleasure to my senses was always the chief business of my life; I have never found any occupation more important. Feeling that I was born for the sex opposite mine, I have always loved it and done all that I could to make myself loved by it. I have also been extravagantly fond of good food and irresistibly drawn by anything which could excite curiosity.