Glory can be for a woman but the brilliant morning of happiness.

One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.

There are women vain of advantages not connected with their persons, such as birth, rank, and fortune; it is difficult to feel less the dignity of the sex. The origin of all women may be called celestial, for their power is the offspring of the gifts of Nature; by yielding to pride and ambition they soon destroy the magic of their charms.

Mystery such as is given of God is beyond the power of human penetration, yet not in opposition to it.

Gaiety pleases more when we are assured that it does not cover carelessness.

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.

A Gothic building engenders true religion ... The light, falling through colored glass, the singular forms of the architecture, unite to give a silent image of that infinite mystery which the soul for ever feels, and never comprehends.