He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
Constancy will always be the genius of love, the indication of that strength which constitutes the poet. A man should possess all women in his wife, like those squalid poetasters of the seventeenth century who made fair Irises and dazzling Chloes of their lowly Manons.
The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
I am a galley slave to pen and ink.
Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.