Gentleness! more powerful than Hercules.

Who has not raised a tombstone, here and there, over buried hopes and dead joys, on the road of life? Like the scars of the heart, they are not to be obliterated.

Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it.

A woman should not take a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her reason.

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.

Love without desire is a delusion: it does not exist in nature.

Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly.