Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.

If certain women walk straight into adultery, there are many others who cling to numerous hopes, and commit sin only after wandering through a maze of sorrows.

A woman in love has full intelligence of her power; the more virtuous she is, the more effective her coquetry.

Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

Lovers have a way of using this word "nothing" which implies exactly the opposite.

The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to discover its real worth.

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.