Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God.

The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor.

There are women so hard to please that it would seem as if nothing less than an angel would suit them; and hence it comes that they often encounter devils.

Delicacy is the genuine tint of virtue.

It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.

We shall all be perfectly virtuous when there is no longer any flesh on our bones.

Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally more credulous.

No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.

Temptations, like misfortunes, are sent to test our moral strength.

Prudence advises us to use our enemies as if one day they might be friends.

Blushes cannot be counterfeited.

Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.

When you love someone deeply, Say it with a flower, And seal it with a kiss.

The mind is a flame. Blow it out, or it will blind you.

One thing I've learned is that I'm not the owner of my talent; I'm the manager of it.

Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.

It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there is a bedrock of truth, however hard.

Change doesn’t happen overnight. It starts with the desire, then one small step in the right direction.

The fact that I spend a lot of time in the 18th century doesn't mean I'm not concerned with the 21st.

All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does not in any way change the above thesis.