But woman brings disorder into society through passion.

The future of a nation lies in the hands of mothers.

A great love is a credit opened in favor of a power so consuming that the moment of bankruptcy must inevitably occur.

Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ideas about men, and sentiment, and life; and then they innocently endow somebody or other with all the perfections for their daydreams, and put their trust in him.

While seeking out the dead, I see nothing but the living.

True love rules especially through memory.

Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.