The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.

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

Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.