Every woman in choosing a lover takes more account of the way in which other women regard the man than of her own.

What we love intensely or for a long time we are likely to bring within the citadel, and to assert as part of oneself.

Egotism is the tongue of vanity.

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

Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.

Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity.

Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.