Intellect does not attain its full force unless it attacks power.

In women's destiny everything goes downhill except for thought, whose immortal nature it is to keep constantly rising.

Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.

Men have made of fortune an all-powerful goddess, in order that she may be made responsible for all their blunder's.

I do not want an echo of myself from my children. I do not want to hear from them merely the reverberation of my own voice.

Nothing recalls the past like music.

We always cut our poetical theories to suit our talent.