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

Gaiety pleases more when we are assured that it does not cover carelessness.

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.

The greater part of what women write about women is mere sycophancy to man.

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.

Venice astonishes more than it pleases at first sight.

The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous.