What is love, if it can calculate and provide against its own decay?

The egotism of woman is always for two.

Who understands much forgives much. To understand everything makes us very forgiving.

Between God and love, I recognize no mediator but my conscience.

Thought can never be compared with action, but when it awakens in us the image of truth.

There is no reality on this earth except religion and the power of love; all the rest is even more fugitive than life itself.

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.