People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It appears to me, besides, that such people can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel.

It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been made.

Give me a few minutes to talk away my face and I can seduce the Queen of France.

The ear is the avenue to the heart.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity.

We are rarely proud when we are alone.

He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to the point of idolatry: I loved him as one can never love twice.