The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

people never write calmly but when they write indifferently.

Tis the established custom [in Vienna] for every lady to have two husbands, one that bears the name, and another that performs the duties.

The most romantic region of every country is that where the mountains unite themselves with the plains or lowlands.

one would suffer a great deal to be happy.