Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.

Poets and men of action differ: the former yield to their feelings in order to reproduce them in lively colors, and therefore judge only ex post facto; the latter feel and judge at one and the same time.

One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others.

Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.

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

Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.

Suffering predisposes the mind to devoutness; and most young girls, prompted by instinctive tenderness, lean towards mysticism, the obscurer side of religion.