A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told.

There are other things besides beauty with which to captivate the hearts of men. The Italians have a saying: "Fair is not fair, but that which pleaseth.

The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.

It requires infinitely a greater genius to make love, than to make war.

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.

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.

Gentleness! more powerful than Hercules.