Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow.

The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.

I loved too sincerely, too completely, I venture to say, to be able to be happy easily.

Everything degenerates in the hands of man.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius.