People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.

You cannot pluck love out of your heart as you would pull a tooth.

I declare, on my soul and conscience, that the attainment of power, or of a great name in literature, seemed to me an easier victory than a success with some young, witty, and gracious lady of high degree.

An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities.

The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power.