I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.

Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.

In order always to learn something from others (which is the finest school there can be), I observe in my travels this practice: I always steer those with whom I talk back to the things they know best.

I would rather be an expert on me than on Cicero

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.

A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.