Occupation: Writer Birth: April 22, 1766 Death: July 14, 1817
A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life..
The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous..
It seems to me that life's circumstances, being ephemeral, teach us less about durable truths than the fictions based on those truths; and that the b….
Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's..
Love is admiring with the heart. And admiring is loving with the mind..
the last steps of life are ever slow and difficult..
Taste is to literature what bon ton is in society..
We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.
Prayer is the life of the soul..
You do not reach the sublime by degrees; the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite..
Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks..
Atheism exists only in coldness, selfishness, and baseness..
[To Bonaparte, when asked why she meddled in politics:] Sire, when women have their heads cut off, it is but just they should know the reason..
Ought not every woman, like every man, to follow the bent of her own talents?.
inventiveness is childish, practice sublime..
All music, even if its occasion be a gay one, renders us pensive..
Life, for me, is living among my friends..
Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time..
Why shouldn't man be as angry about not having always been alive as about having to stop being alive?.
Men have made of fortune an all-powerful goddess, in order that she may be made responsible for all their blunder's..
The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'.