I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.

The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.

A woman in love has full intelligence of her power; the more virtuous she is, the more effective her coquetry.

Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

The impossible is justified by the fact that it occurred

In a world of hunchbacks, a fine figure becomes a monstrosity.

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.