Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others.

Genius inspires this thirst for fame: there is no blessing undesired by those to whom Heaven gave the means of winning it.

I never was able to believe in the existence of next year except as in a metaphysical notion.

Love which is only an episode in the life of men, is the entire history of the life of women.

All music, even if its occasion be a gay one, renders us pensive.

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

The entire social order ... is arrayed against a woman who wants to rise to a man's reputation.