The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one.

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

If it were not for respect for human opinions, I would not open my window to see the Bay of Naples for the first time, whilst I would go five hundred leagues to talk with a man of genius whom I had not seen.

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.

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

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.