It is not enough to forgive; one must forget.

There is no reality on this earth except religion and the power of love; all the rest is even more fugitive than life itself.

Men do not change; they unmask themselves.

[On Italian:] One may almost call it a language that talks of itself, and always seems more witty than its speakers.

Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others.

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

Love which is only an episode in the life of men, is the entire history of the life of women.