To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.

There are women vain of advantages not connected with their persons, such as birth, rank, and fortune; it is difficult to feel less the dignity of the sex. The origin of all women may be called celestial, for their power is the offspring of the gifts of Nature; by yielding to pride and ambition they soon destroy the magic of their charms.

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

The people are as severe toward the clergy as toward women; they want to see absolute devotion to duty from both.

We always cut our poetical theories to suit our talent.

[On Italian:] One may almost call it a language that talks of itself, and always seems more witty than its speakers.

Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.