Venice astonishes more than it pleases at first sight.

There are only two distinct classes of people on this earth, those who espouse enthusiasm and those who despise it.

A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life.

[To Bonaparte, when asked why she meddled in politics:] Sire, when women have their heads cut off, it is but just they should know the reason.

Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.

Love is admiring with the heart. And admiring is loving with the mind.

There are women vain of advantages not connected with their persons, such as birth, rank, and fortune; it is difficult to feel less the dignity of the sex. The origin of all women may be called celestial, for their power is the offspring of the gifts of Nature; by yielding to pride and ambition they soon destroy the magic of their charms.