At thirty years a woman asks her lover to give her back the esteem she has forfeited for his sake; she lives only for him, her thoughts are full of his future, he must have a great career, she bids him make it glorious; she can obey, entreat, command, humble herself, or rise in pride; times without number she brings comfort when a young girl can only make moan.

Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Sects differ more in name than tenets.

Are not our noblest feelings as it were the poems of our will.

Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.

Science is the language of the temporal world; love is that of the spiritual world. Man, indeed, describes more than he explains; while the angelic spirit sees and understands. Science saddens man; love enraptures the angel; science is still seeking; love has found.