Love, supreme power of the heart, mysterious enthusiasm that encloses in itself all poetry, all heroism, all religion!

The memories which come to us through music are not accompanied by any regrets; for a moment music gives us back the pleasures it retraces, and we feel them again rather than recollect them.

Who understands much forgives much. To understand everything makes us very forgiving.

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.

How true it is that, sooner or later, the' most rebellious must bow beneath the yoke of misfortune!

The people are as severe toward the clergy as toward women; they want to see absolute devotion to duty from both.

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.