Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination..

Love which is only an episode in the life of men, is the entire history of the life of women..

It is not enough to forgive; one must forget..

When once enthusiasm has been turned into ridicule, everything is undone except money and power..

A Gothic building engenders true religion ... The light, falling through colored glass, the singular forms of the architecture, unite to give a silen….

[On Napoleon:] One has the impression of an imperious wind blowing about one's ears when one is near that man..

A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it..

The entire social order ... is arrayed against a woman who wants to rise to a man's reputation..

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it..

Danger is like wine, it goes to your head..

There are women vain of advantages not connected with their persons, such as birth, rank, and fortune; it is difficult to feel less the dignity of th….

If we would succeed in works of the imagination, we must offer a mild morality in the midst of rigid manners; but where the manners are corrupt, we m….

The people are as severe toward the clergy as toward women; they want to see absolute devotion to duty from both..

The memories which come to us through music are not accompanied by any regrets; for a moment music gives us back the pleasures it retraces, and we fe….

Nothing recalls the past like music..

O memory, thou bitter sweet,--both a joy and a scourge!.

Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them..

[The Germans] so easily confuse obstinacy with energy, and rudeness with firmness..

Conscience is doubtless sufficient to conduct the coldest character into the road of virtue; but enthusiasm is to conscience what honor is to duty; t….

The greater part of what women write about women is mere sycophancy to man..

I desire no other proof of Christianity than the Lord's Prayer..