A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life.
Between God and love, I recognize no mediator but my conscience.
[The Germans] so easily confuse obstinacy with energy, and rudeness with firmness.
Anything that happens gradually is always irrevocable.
Unhappy love freezes all our affections: our own souls grow inexplicable to us. More than we gained while we were happy we lose by the reverse.
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.