The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor.

We shall all be perfectly virtuous when there is no longer any flesh on our bones.

Servitude is inherent; we are all slaves to duty or to force.

Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.

There is no greater fool than the man who thinks himself wise; no one is wiser than he who suspects he is a fool.

God has put into the heart of man love and the boldness to sue, and into the heart of woman fear and the courage to refuse.

The more hidden the venom, the more dangerous it is.