Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.

Some troubles, like a protested note of a solvent debtor, bear interest.

Women? In order to realize how far these charming creatures we idealize can carry their cruelty, we must see them among themselves!

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.

Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.

Suffering predisposes the mind to devoutness; and most young girls, prompted by instinctive tenderness, lean towards mysticism, the obscurer side of religion.

But woman brings disorder into society through passion.