For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds.

Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.

Glory is the sunshine of the dead

The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.

To speak of love is to make love.

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.