Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned.

A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage.

Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.

When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.

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

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.

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.