With all women gentleness is the most persuasive and powerful argument.

Modesty was made for the ugly.

Sometimes he sits at your feet looking into your face with an expression so gentle and caressing that the depth of his gaze startles you.

I was born to travel and write verse.

Good heavens! what a foolish thing is this pretended perfectibility of the human race which is continually being dinned into our ears!

The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force nature and time, I ought to have spent in solitude and meditation, in endeavoring to make myself worthy of being loved.

[Great artists] do not copy what they see, but what they desire.