Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.

"Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation." -If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he and I was I.

It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.

Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener. The latter must prepare to receive it according to the motion it takes.

If my intentions were not to be read in my eyes and voice, I should not have survived so long without quarrels and without harm, seeing the indiscreet freedom with which I say, right or wrong, whatever comes into my head.

Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.

There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.