Marriageable girls as well as mothers understand the terms and perils of the lottery called wedlock. That is why women weep at a wedding and men smile.

Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

When will conventional good manners become attractive? When will ladies of fashion exhibit their shoulders a little less and their affability and wit a little more?

Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.

The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste.

Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.