As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

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

Never, never have I been loved as I love others!

A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

The most beautiful landscapes in the world, if they evoke no memory, if they bear no trace of a remarkable event, are uninteresting compared to historic landscapes.

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

It seems to me that we become more dear one to the other, in together admiring works of art, which speak to the soul by their true grandeur.