Birth is nothing where virtue is not

It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.

To inspire love is a woman's greatest ambition, believe me. It's the one thing woman care about and there's no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.

All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe

Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved

The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.

I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.