A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.

I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.

A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.

The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.