There is a greatness in being generous, and there is only simple justice in satisfying creditors. Generosity is the part of the soul raised above the vulgar.

Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.

They say women and music should never be dated.

I have seen her and sister cry over a book for an hour together, and they said, they liked the book the better the more it made them cry.

Thus love is the most easy and agreeable, and gratitude the most humiliating, affection of the mind. We never reflect on the man we love without exulting in our choice, while he who has bound us to him by benefits alone rises to our ideas as a person to whom we have in some measure forfeited our freedom.

Tenderness is a virtue.