I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.

What saves the virtue of many a woman is that protecting god, the impossible.

The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.

There are words which cut like steel.

Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.

There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.

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.