Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

Nothing can afford a woman greater pleasure than to hear tender words of love. The strictest, most devout woman will listen even if she must not answer.

Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from.

People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.

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

To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself, will always be the text of the life of woman.

I should like one of these days to be so well known, so popular, so celebrated, so famous, that it would permit me . . . to break wind in society, and society would think it a most natural thing.