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

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.

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

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.

Don’t ever write a novel unless it hurts like a hot turd coming out

We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so.

The trouble with the dead, as I see it, is they don't stay that way.

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

In writing, you discover interior sonorities in words. Dipthongs sound differently beneath the pen. One hears them with their sounds divorced.

The mad rarely know that they are mad. It's the rest of the world, I think, that seems insane to them.

The actors I looked up to when I was a teenager, they all just disappeared into different characters.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Inner reality is certainly more important than the outer reality.

We have our own reasons for what's motivating us right now.