women have no existence except in love; the history of their life begins and ends with love!

Thought can never be compared with action, but when it awakens in us the image of truth.

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.

Genius inspires this thirst for fame: there is no blessing undesired by those to whom Heaven gave the means of winning it.

What is love, if it can calculate and provide against its own decay?

I do not want an echo of myself from my children. I do not want to hear from them merely the reverberation of my own voice.

Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.