What matters in a character is not whether one holds this or that opinion: what matters is how proudly one upholds it.

intellect is a sin that must be atoned for by leading exactly the life of those who have none.

The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.

Conscience is doubtless sufficient to conduct the coldest character into the road of virtue; but enthusiasm is to conscience what honor is to duty; there is in us a superfluity of soul, which it is sweet to consecrate to the beautiful when the good has been accomplished.

Purity of mind and conduct is the first glory of a woman.

The universe is in France; outside it, there is nothing.

When women oppose themselves to the projects and ambition of men, they excite their lively resentment; if in their youth they meddle with political intrigues, their modesty must suffer.