There is no one who does not represent a danger to someone.

Thicken your religion a little. It is evaporating altogether by being subtilized.

Occupation is the best safeguard for women under all circumstances--mental or physical, or both. Cupid extinguishes his torch in the atmosphere of industry.

[After being corrected by a grammarian for using the feminine pronoun instead of the pseudogeneric masculine:] As you please, but for my part, if I were to express myself so, I should fancy I had a beard.

We are never satisfied with having done well; and in endeavoring to do better, we do much worse.

I love you so passionately, that I hide a great part of my love, so as not to oppress you with it.

long journeys are strange things: if we were always to continue in the same mind we are in at the end of a journey, we should never stir from the place we were then in: but Providence in kindness to us causes us to forget it. It is much the same with lying-in women. Heaven permits this forgetfulness that the world may be peopled, and that folks may take journeys to Provence.