A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

Never, never have I been loved as I love others!

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

[On Italian:] One may almost call it a language that talks of itself, and always seems more witty than its speakers.

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.

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.

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