By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.

'Passion' a word which involves so many feelings. I feel it when we touch; I feel it when we kiss; I feel it when I look at you. For you are my passion; my one true love.

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.

O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!

I know not my own heart if it be not absolutely free.

All women, from the countess to the cook-maid, are put into high good humor with themselves when a man is taken with them at firstsight. And be they ever so plain, they will find twenty good reasons to defend the judgment of such a man.