In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

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.

Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.

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.

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

What matters in a character is not whether one holds this or that opinion: what matters is how proudly one upholds it.

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