I should rejoice if my pleasures were as pleasing to God as they are to myself.
Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God.
The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor.
Bashfulness is not becoming to maidenhood, though modesty always is.
The cup of joy is heaviest when empty.
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.