The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.

It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another; they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong.

Men are nothing until they are excited.

Fortune does us neither good nor hurt; she only presents us the matter, and the seed, which our soul, more powerfully than she, turns and applies as she best pleases; being the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her own happy or unhappy condition.

Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart. If I were pressed to say why I loved him, I feel that my only reply could be: Because it was he, because it was I.

The only thing certain is nothing is certain.