Woman's weakness, not man's merit, oftenest gains the suitor's victory.

There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.

All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.

All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little that I still know, I've guessed.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead (suicide note)

A modicum of discord is the very spice of courtship.