The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste.

What saves the virtue of many a woman is that protecting god, the impossible.

But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.

Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.

Narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or beneficially over others.

In family life people almost always adjust themselves to misfortune. They make a bed of it and hope makes them accept that bed, however hard it is.

Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.