If it were not for respect for human opinions, I would not open my window to see the Bay of Naples for the first time, whilst I would go five hundred….

Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak..

Have you not observed that faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called the weakest?.

Happy the land where the writers are sad, the merchants satisfied, the rich melancholic, and the populace content..

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality..

The egotism of woman is always for two..

Happiness is a wondrous commodity: the more you give, the more you have..

What is love, if it can calculate and provide against its own decay?.

Strangers are contemporary posterity. [Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.].

A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn..

Providence protects us in all the details of our lot..

in Italy, almost at every step, history and poetry add to the graces of nature, sweeten the memory of the past, and seem to preserve it in eternal yo….

Never, never have I been loved as I love others!.

Intellect does not attain its full force unless it attacks power..

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man..

Conversation as talent exists only in France. In other countries, conversation provides politeness, discussion, and friendship; in France, it is an a….

I learn life from the poets..

The evil arising from mental improvement can be corrected only by a still further progress in that very improvement. Either morality is a fable, or t….

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it..

Between God and love, I recognize no mediator but my conscience..

[Ridicule] laughs at all those who see the earnestness of life and who still believe in true feelings and in serious thought ... It soils the hope of….