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

Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks.

Nature, who permits no two leaves to be exactly alike, has given a still greater diversity to human minds. Imitation, then, is a double murder; for it deprives both copy and original of their primitive existence.

The memories which come to us through music are not accompanied by any regrets; for a moment music gives us back the pleasures it retraces, and we feel them again rather than recollect them.

... in the history of the human mind there has never been a useful thought or a profound truth that has not found its century and admirers.

Taste is to literature what bon ton is in society.

Nothing recalls the past like music.