Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.

The mind's pleasures are made to calm the tempests of the heart.

I am glad that I am not a man, for then I should have to marry a woman.

nothing is so horrifying as the possibility of existing simply because we do not know how to die.

One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.

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

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