Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.

God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.

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

A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent.

When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power.

Imagination helps the realism of every detail, and only sees the beauties of the work.

Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.