The entire social order ... is arrayed against a woman who wants to rise to a man's reputation.
I must keep on rowing, not until I reach port but until I reach my grave.
[The Germans] so easily confuse obstinacy with energy, and rudeness with firmness.
It seems to me that we become more dear one to the other, in together admiring works of art, which speak to the soul by their true grandeur.
Men do not change; they unmask themselves.
Gaiety pleases more when we are assured that it does not cover carelessness.