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

No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea.

Our most natural feelings are those we are loath to confess, and fatuity is among them.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

Constancy will always be the genius of love, the indication of that strength which constitutes the poet. A man should possess all women in his wife, like those squalid poetasters of the seventeenth century who made fair Irises and dazzling Chloes of their lowly Manons.

Misfortune, no less than happiness, inspires us to dream.

Necessity is the spur of genius.