We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the latter useful, and the human mind requires both. The cannon law and the codes of Justinian shall have due honor, and reign at the universities; but Homer and Virgil need not therefore be banished. We will cultivate the olive and the vine, but without eradicating the myrtle and the rose.

At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.

Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects.

When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen.

A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought.

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

One hour of love has a whole life in it.