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.

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

After the age of eighty, all contemporaries are friends.

Old age is women's hell.

It takes a hundred times more skill to make love than to command an army.

Gentleness! more powerful than Hercules.

Memory is ever active, ever true. Alas, if it were only as easy to forget!