Women govern us; let us render them perfect: the more they are enlightened, so much the more shall we be. On the cultivation of the mind of women depends the wisdom of men. It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.

My valour is certainly going! - it is sneaking off! - I feel it oozing out as it were at the palms of my hands!

Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.

You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.

Nothing keeps me in such awe as perfect beauty; now, there is something consoling and encouraging in ugliness.

We will not anticipate the past; so mind, young people,-our retrospection will be all to the future.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.