Indulgence, twin sister of guilt.

Make your best thoughts into action.

Women do not often have it in their power to give like men, but they forgive like Heaven.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.

Reason ought not, like vanity, to adorn herself with ancient parchments, and the display of a genealogical tree; more dignified in her proceedings, and proud of her immortal nature, she ought to derive everything from herself.

In looking around me seeking for miserable resources against the heaviness of time, I open a book and I say to myself, as the cat to the fox: I have only one good turn, but I need no other.

A woman must be truly refined to incite chivalry in the heart of a man.